Pitched both ideas as two separate submission because I wanted to write a few more sentences for each topic. I hope this is ok. Just want to be clear, I want to join the core team, but I will be quite busy in the next few months at work so I can’t promise much more than contributing one article and perhaps helping with deciding the layout and design, etc.
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I have a few more ideas for articles.
- Participating in game jams: what are game jams, where can you find them and how can you participate (design, programming, art, music)
- Making video games for quantum computers, yeah I have done that, and yeah, teaching people how to use quantum computers is my job haha.
- AAA game budget issue: how video games play time got so long, game development got so expensive, and that it made sales expectation high to recoup the cost and in turn made AAA game design less risk taking and therefore less innovative. The issues about this article idea is that I think this is a well known issue and there are much better articles out there that talk about this issue, so I am not sure I can add anything interesting.
- Why do we play retro games. Related to the AAA game idea and retro handheld idea. I can write this as a general phenomenon of the retro gaming scene or my personal experience. I want to write about how video games are getting too long, and limited gaming time of adult life makes it difficult to get in and out of a intense AAA game and shorter retro games plus retro handhelds make gaming as an adult easier.
I didn’t submit to the form because these are very rough ideas that I typed out as I think, but if @BMO you think it’s better to submit I can do that.
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Sorry for sending so many messages in a row. I am too excited for this, I guess 
. One thing I can contribute could be “marketing” or social media campaigns to distribute the zine outside of the Grouvee community if needed. But I guess for the first issue we can keep it to ourselves.
Also sharing my absolute favorite fan made magazine NFMagazine in case you don’t know already.
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You can submit them all. You might have to choose which ones you want to write most because we may not be able to fit them all in a single issue, and if any specifically compliment other articles we might encourage a certain article. But there’s no harm in submitting the proposals. Whatever you don’t write for a first issue could potentially work for future issues, if we get there.
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Yeah I don’t think will be able to write all these articles, probably at most two.
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Exactly. But at this point you might not know which you feel most passionate about. If you put them down in a proposal I’ll keep them on file. You never know. If things go well and there comes a time when something you didn’t chose to write for this issue seems to fit with a theme in a future issue, I might approach you to see if you’d want to write it.
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Oh wow. This magazine looks awesome. I’m gonna grab their Years 1-3 digital bundle. For $15 that’s a steal. I miss Nintendo Power so much. 
Have you heard of Patch Magazine? My partner and I have been subscribed to them for awhile. They focus on indie games and I definitely recommend them.
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- Making video games for quantum computers, yeah I have done that, and yeah, teaching people how to use quantum computers is my job haha.
I would totally read this. If you make it, do include a quantum computing generals introduction so that stupid people like me can follow it, please.
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Yeah it’s absolutely a steal to get the bundle. Subscription is also very cheap, i think it’s $3 per issue for digital only.
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Thank you for enthusiasm! Actually I have already written that under my real name and as part of my job a few years ago to celebrate the Game Boy 30th anniversary 
Celebrating Game Boy’s 30th Anniversary: Now You’re Playing with Power; Quantum Power! | by Junye Huang | Medium
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Humbled to see the gaming equivalent of Stephen Hawking potentially write in the Grouvee zine (my puny brain cannot comprehend quantum computing)
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Patch is the best!! I’ve taken their last three issues on holiday with me because I haven’t had a chance to enjoy them yet, really excited to start reading them today!
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Haha, thanks! I am no Stephen Hawking but I’ll try to teach you all a bit of quantum computing :).
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I’d be down to assist with design work
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