- Accompanist (role)
- Ad libitum
- Agenda
- Aleatoricism
- Aspect
- Balance
- Bartle types
- BCG
- (Cognitive) flow
- Conductor (role)
- Constellation
- Constructor (role)
- Co-optionality
- Cue cards
- Dice
- Dimension
- Downbeat
- Downtime
- Elegant Game
- Emergence
- End Condition
- Event (musical event)
- Extended technique
- Facilitator
- Fighting
- Flow
- Found sound
- Gameplay flow
- Genre
- Heteronomous Music
- Horizon of intent
- Improvisation rite
- Insert game
- Inspire cards
- Instrument Preparation
- Judge (role)
- Karaoke
- King-making
- Learning curve
- Ludomusical dissonance
- Meaningful Choice
- Mechanic
- Music game
- Non-idiomatic music
- Notation Cards
- Open work
- Parameter
- Pervasive Game
- Player (role)
- Prompter (role)
- Psychographics
- Quarterbacking
- Rhythm cards
- Rhythm game
- Roles
- RPG
- Rule Cards
- Speedrun
- Stacking
- Trading
- Transition
- Upgrade
- Victory condition
- Xenochrony
- XP
- Yes, and...
- Zine
This glossary entry is a draft. You can help by editing it or discussing in the comments
A shorthand for "magazine", used especially for non-commercial, DIY examples.
Usage
Usually the word is pronounced close to its origin from "-zine". As for the appearance, you may find an exception to every point below, but having classic paper magazines as their main reference point, zines will often have:
- multiple pages, but less than a typical book,
- text and images on pages, with
- a more visually rich front cover, and
- sections with a variety of types, be it articles, activities, comic strips, drawings, etc.
For features that were a staple of the original medium, but are less frequent in zines, we could mention:
- mixing content sourced from many people — it surely happens, but a significant portion of zines are single-authored,
- running ads on pages — quite rare in zines, especially nowadays.
The vocabulary is fuzzy, distinction between a zine and e.g. a semi-professional, niche, artistic journal is not perfectly clear. "Zine" may cover both unique, limited, hand-made items, and those digitally distributed, free and paid. Aims, context, user's age — these all will be important for choosing a word, and there is a visible difference in word's uptake between social groups, "zines" will be popular e.g. among fans of TTRPGs or fantasy literature, while some others will rather have "booklets" or other materials.
Zines for us music gamers
Synzine magazine does not use the short-word "zine" in its materials, but is probably the closest thing to "music gaming zine" that you can find.
Cath Roberts makes hand-made zines which often include graphic scores. More at: https://inkpapersound.bigcartel.com/
Jess Driscoll also embraces the zine name and form, and one of those is "Chill beats to make zines to" to explore the theme of playlists, on Itch.io: https://jessdriscoll.itch.io/chill-beats
Matt Thompson sells a zine Critical Hit Parader, described as "tabletop roleplaying game content in the spirit of vintage rock magazines from the ’70s and ’80s": https://goodman-games.com/store/product/critical-hit-parader-zine-issue-no-1-print-pdf/
At last, for the comparison, have a look at The Book of Ephemerodes which functions as a "book", while being quite like a zine in length and general appearance.
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