ORIENTATION
AN INTRODUCTORY ZINLET TO PSYCHO PATROL R
Release Date: March 23th 2025
Platform: Itch.io
The year is 2000 A.D.
The world's foremost superpower, the Federation of Pan-Europa, is heading into disarray. As infrastructure decays and violent militias carve up increasing swathes of its territory, the stability of its collective unconscious also finds itself under siege from a whole new kind of threat.
Psychohazards: viruses of the mind.
Whether through purposeful misinformation or rumors spiraling out of control, the threat posed by psychohazards has led to the establishment of a new kind of police unit: one meant to investigate and eradicate them at the source - by any means necessary.
Enter the "Psycho Patrol".
Founded by clamored criminologist Lorenzo Visconti as a new kind of high-tech, anti-hitlerite force guided by the principles of Wilhelm Reich, the European Federal Police's new "Psycho Patrol" is a fledgling institution unpopular among its peer organizations, but brimming with potential. The perfect place for someone like you.
So misunderstood, so full of potential.
So go ahead, grab this zine and get acquainted: featuring over 20 pages of useful tidbits, character insights and mildly disconcerting fanart, ORIENTATION is the perfect introduction to the peculiar world of PSYCHO PATROL R, the latest in FPS/RPG europolice simulation by CONSUMER SOFTPRODUCTS. This zine was composed with their blessing and help, allowing us access to the game for playtesting and design advisory purposes.
All in-game assets depicted, such as weapon models and character portraits, were sourced from CONSUMER SOFTPRODUCTS' development archives, and all original writing therein was carefully vetted before finalization – to make sure each character's individual neuroses are rendered accurately and faithfully.
As the only human left on Twin Terra with an iron backbone, a strong sense of justice and very few moral boundaries, only you can pull the Pan-European Federation back from the brink of disaster.
Good luck out there, Officer.
ALL SEA
AN INTRODUCTORY ZINLET TO PANTHALASSA
Release Date: May 18th 2026
Platform: Itch.io
The year is uncertain.
Somewhere deep in the ocean, the unsuspecting populace of an underwater colony station finds itself afflicted by a spiritual maladie of unknown origins, wreaking havoc on its carefully designed social structure.
The early signs of apathetic collapse.
More and more of the station's denizens begin retreating into apathy and isolation, including those tasked with weaving the fabric of society itself. Slowly but surely, the wheels begin grinding down, turning slightly slower every passing day.
Many attempts are made to stop this.
The elder Methus, de-facto social leader of the colony, cannot allow this rot to spread any further. His attempts at rekindling his citizens' spirits are many, leveraging the countless vocations he's had time to hone in centuries of continued operation. One such attempts, devised with the help of a few notable station denizens (and one energetic virtual helper), is a purposefully anachronistic, page-based, visual-text file that, upon completion, would be mass-sent to every device connected to the station's intranet servers.
A cultural reporting document, known in another time as a "zine".
ALLSEA is a 28-page zine introducing you, an interloping being from a time and place uncertain, to the strange yet familiar world of PANTHALASSA: the debut point-and-click adventure by MEIA CALCA. Outside of the game's diegesis, this zine was designed, written and laid out with their help and blessing.
All in-game assets depicted, such as character art and fish renders, were sourced from MEIA CALCA’S development archives, and all original writing therein was vetted by the team before finalization, making sure the voices of each character were consistent with their in-game characterization. The zine comes in two versions: one with a (pdf-fillable) Notes section in the style of classic videogame manuals, and one with only the zine segments and a lower pagecount (24 pages) for cheaper printing.