đ What are your MĂRKTOBER pro tips?
Creating a list of creativity hacks and tips for this year's MĂRKTOBER prompts. Send in your best ones and I'll make a compilation to share on Wednesday. Also, some featured art posts!
MĂRKTOBER 2025 is here and thereâs a flood of new creations being made!
If you made one or more things so far this year, congrats! Youâve made more stuff than everyone who hasnât started yet! And if you havenât started yet, check out the MĂRKTOBER Creator Kit. It might give you the little nudge you need to get started!
Share your favorite MĂRKTOBER tips!
If you have a creativity tip, hack, method, or something that might help others make things this season, please share! Iâll send out a compilation on Wednesday!
For example, this year Iâm using a method that involves pre-drawing a 16:9 box for each day in my notebook. Then, as I think of ideas, I fill the boxes:
No more and no less. I fill the box and stop, even if I have more I could write. This stops scope creep right in its tracks.
If you have a tip like this, either post a comment or send an email with photo to games@exeunt.press by noon on Tuesday, October 7, 2025.1
Featured art posts
While Iâm personally doing hand-written ideas in a notebook, thereâs always a ton of great art that is created by the community. Here are a few from the first three days that caught my eye:
đ¸ Day 1 - Frog
Day 1 saw a plague of frogs, including this gunslinger by Francisco Lemos:
If you want to see more art by Francisco, check out the MĂRKTOBER Creator Kit. It features some really fun pieces by him!
đ Day 2 - Maw
In a fun twist in interpretation, Perplexing Ruins created the incredibly creepy Maw:
đĄď¸ Day 3 - Daggers:
Johan Nohr and Chris Bissette are collaborating this year, including Darldreg for Day 3 - Daggers:
Iâll share more art posts in future newsletters!
Make weird stuff!
Thatâs it for now. Send in your tips before noon tomorrow.2 Iâll compile and send them out Wednesday and/or share some of my own.
Today is Day 6 - Husk!
Grab the prompts, check the FAQ, and make stuff!
- E.P. đ
Please note that I try to keep newsletter posts to a size that will fit in email. When including images, this is becomes a very limited space. So I may not be able to include every tip shared and will potentially need to just choose a few.
Make sure you are OK with my sharing whatever you send in! It will be shared via this newsletter and possibly other methods such as Bluesky.
This has been a fun one so far. My main bit of advice is to just have fun with it. If you put too much pressure on it you miss the point, which is just to be a little bit creative every day.
I can recommend âThe Ten Comics Commandmentsâ from Comiclab. This advice will help you not only enjoy making something for your creative self, but also how to step it up whenever you feel like with advice so simple as
âThey wont read your comic if they can read your comicâ regarding legibility, something sometimes a bit challenging on some Borg designs