I also design posters and advertisements, make digital games accessible to the visually impaired, manage crowdfunding projects, create brand identities and marketing plans, and very occassionally write things.
Layout / Design
Art Direction
Project Management
Crowdfunding
Brand Identity
PDF Remediation
Marketing / Social Media
+ consultation for all above
2019
2019
2020
2020
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
2023
2023
2023
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2024
2024
2024
The Demon Collective, Vol. 1
Magical Industrial Revolution
Libreté + Fleur Du Mall
Lorn Song of the Bachelor
ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
ARCventure Series
BX: A Cipher Universe
Gangs of Titan City
The Monster Overhaul
Old School Essentials
Eat the Reich
Moonlight on Roseville Beach
Social Media Management
Throne of Avarice
Cairn 2E Boxed Set
INEVITABLE
MOTHERSHIP 1E Deluxe Set
GMDK
Skerples
GMDK
Exalted Funeral
Free League Publishing
Exalted Funeral
Dreamyard NYC
SoulMuppet Publishing
Skerples
Necrotic Gnome
Rowan, Rook, & Deckard
R. Rook Studio
Space Penguin Ink
SoulMuppet Publishing
Space Penguin Ink
SoulMuppet Publishing
Tuesday Knight Games
Project Management
Crowdfunding
Project Management
Layout / Design
PDF Remediation
Layout / Design
Layout / Design
Layout / Design
Crowdfunding
PDF Remediation
PDF Remediation
Layout / Design
Marketing / Social Media
Layout / Design
Marketing / Social Media
Layout / Design
PDF Remediation
Unorthodox softcover, 72pp
Published by Rowan, Rook and Decard
2023
I first discovered Rowan, Rook, and Decard when I backed their game Spire on Kickstarter in 2017. In 2023, they launched a crowdfunding campaign for their newest book, Eat the Reich, an alternate history game about vampire commandos seeking to exsanguinate Adolf Hitler the hard way. I’m always down for new and interesting ways to stick it to Der Führer, and the art and design by Will Kirkby was a big draw, so I humbly pitched my accessibility services, and they were more than receptive.
At this point in my career, I was doing almost all of my PDF remediation work within InDesign. This has numerous advantages to doing it “in post” via Acrobat, the primary one being that the metadata is set within the layout file itself, and will automatically apply to all exports from that file henceforth. This allows for changes to be made to the document, like fixing typos or altering the placement of items, without necessitating the entire work be done again to make it accessible.
The biggest challenge with this book was in the character sheets, which make heavy use of check boxes to indicate uses of particular talents or weapons. Each of these check boxes required their own alt text, and had to be threaded together so that they could be read both individually and within the context of each other. Furthermore, the bombastic colors and design of the book, while visually stunning, were often insufficient in the contrast department for an accessible document. This was solved by the creation of a seperate, black-and-white version of the document without any of the background art.
PDF Remediation by Dai Shugars.