Beth and Angel Make Games
Hi there. 🙋‍♀️ We're Beth and Angel, partners in design and life! We make games and zines and stuff. You can find other ways to connect with us here. 🧡💜
We also run a blog together on Patreon! Become a member to get:
- Free Member: We share new releases (free via community copies), special events, insights about game design, and more there. The posts are free even if you aren't a member. But if you join, you'll get emails when we put out new posts (like a newsletter!).
- Zinester ($3/month): Our posts in your email inbox, plus Itch keys for all the zines we make while you're a member.
- Gamer ($5/month): The above and Itch keys for ALL of our releases while you're a member.
- Mail Club ($10/month US or $15/month internationally): The above and monthly snail mail: home-printed games and zines!
Bundles We're In
- Solo But Not Alone 6! ending April 1st is a collection of 90 items from 74 creators for $10. Including Alone in the Library, Imparting Fables, and Persona Obscura by us.
"It's time for our annual bundle of singleplayer-capable TTRPGs raising money to help Take This with their mission to make mental health supports available for people who need them!"
- No ICE in Minnesota ending March 13th is a collection of 1,439 items from 651 creators for $10 including It's Dangerous... You Really Need This! by Beth.
- 🔥Post-Fire Fundraiser🔥 ending March 1st is a PWYW (including free!) collection of 79 items from 26 creators, raising money for a fellow creator whose roof caught on fire on Christmas Eve. It includes unexpected guests, Games R Us, Piecing It Together, and Will You Press the Button from us.
Our Current Jams
Want to join us in making games, or just looking for a challenge? Come jam with us.
Can you escape being stranded on a desert island in this roll-and-write hex-crawl TTRPG?
Even drowning in darkness... you can find hope
Knock some dice around, they deserve it!
A solo, introductory journaling TTRPG
A game and poem about dwindling energy
Click Here to See Everything We've Made/Codesigned
Can you escape being stranded on a desert island in this roll-and-write hex-crawl TTRPG?
Even drowning in darkness... you can find hope
A solo, introductory journaling TTRPG
A game and poem about dwindling energy
Knock some dice around, they deserve it!
An Alone Among the Stars hack about humanity living underground.
Our lives aren't movies, yet our minds chime in like movie critics forced to watch our lives... what's that about?
A game zine to help motivate you toward your goals
An 8-page zine that challenges how you think about negative thoughts.
Convince the Hero of Legend they need YOUR Legendary Item and why!
Reimagine your day in this daily journaling game
A short journaling game about the stories behind thrift store finds.
Let's spread positivity wherever we go 🧡
A fill-in-zine with quotes and questions.
Use your Pocket Perspective to gain insight into your next TTRPG actions or words!
A short poem about the kindred nature of trees.
For when "no" just feels too confrontational to say out loud.
A meditative retreat
A collection of poems about haunted memories
Three bookmarks to help catalog your adventures through the literary world.
Gather stuff, acquire companies and create silly product mashups
Zines You Can Read in Your Browser
Exorcise your inner demons with these scrolls of distraction.
A poem about relationships.
A perzine celebrating BioShock Infinite, one of my fav games!
Self-discovery and growth in edible form!
A mini-zine of quirky little 24-word RPGs to play IRL.
A short poem about the kindred nature of trees.
A pocket guide to stuff I often need to look up, maybe you do too!
Create conspiracy theories to overthrow an evil corporation
An 8-page pocket-sized encouraging coloring zine
Even drowning in darkness... you can find hope
7 truths and 3 lies. Times 4. Cuz I'm ✨extra✨ like that!
My Edition of Beth's Truths & Lies: Sparkly Edition
An 8-page mini zine featuring photography of squirrels I took at the park.
An 8-page mini zine featuring photography of geese, ducks, and a swan I took at the park.
Starscrawl your way into divination!
An Alone Among the Stars hack about an elderly person's trip down memory lane.
Store your awesomeness and celebrate it when you need it the most!
Summon support critters for you and your friends!
The equipment I wear and use to banish dysphoria
A celebration of getting NES and SNES games at Toys R Us as a kid
An 8-page pocket-sized Blackout Poetry Zine made from screenshots from my phone.
Free!
Explore deeper and deeper, gathering more and more, but... look out for the shadows...
Upkeep art you couldn't care less about and unravel the mysteries of your ancestors and the hill itself
Make your own zines, postcards, bookmarks, business cards, and playing cards in Canva!
Wield an otherworldly coin and question who —or what— you can trust
A poetic celebration of (a lack of) memories
Why carry stuff when an intern can do it?
These magical apps come at a cost: the phone charges itself with YOU
The world may affect your emotions, but your emotions absolutely affect the world
Discover your biggest fan: you!
A push-your-luck roll-and-move game where players rapidly roll and save a dwindling number of dice per round.
Use your stickers on reusable cards to remember a "long-lost" civilization
A 2-page party game about throwing parties! No cards required!
Your newest excuse to roll a bunch of dice!
A creative solo/party game about using the items you have around you to overcome life-threatening obstacles!
Recall your memories and the lessons you learned from Wonderland
Name the books you save (or burn...) and discuss them while/after playing Fire in the Library
Roll a die and act out the wild effect of your drink!
Retrieve visions of the end
Make irl creations with your experience points!
9 card-sized 12-word lyrical games on a single sheet!