How a game about making zines helped me recapture my creativity in lockdown

On some of the creative tool pages, tiny emojis are hidden, offering silly dialogue when you find them. A bacon brush lets you paint ribbons of rashers. A button lets you offer your zine to The Void, scrambling the screen and spewing back a piece of randomly generated glitch art. The software's bright layout and playful text is disarming – and when our guard is down, we can really make interesting things. My first run of zines made through this software were printed on bright yellow paper, and featured images of bananas cut to look like dolphins. There was some text inside, detailing a little of how burned out I felt, how exhaustion had drained the laughter out of me, and how these dolphins had brought some of it back.