Hello!My name is Zeke Nelsons (ze/they), and I offer graphic design, web/Discord/Twitch design, freelance writing of all types, and many other services; such as ttrpg writing and mechanics design and layouts for print.I create immersive, interactive, and transmedia fiction through my small business, WeARGames.
I am a transgender, queer, neurodiverse, disabled content creator, with OSDD.My husband is also disabled. He is unable to work due to his seizures, and I am only able to do light desk work, so our employment options are greatly limited.We greatly appreciate you considering hiring Pyrefly Studio, as it is our primary source of income at the moment. If you would like to help support our family, but are not in need of my services, you are more than welcome to donate.
I offer a wide variety of services across several different platforms. I've listed them below, but if there is something you need that isn't on the menu, all you have to do is ask! If it's within my skill set, I'd be happy to quote you a price.
All services include consultation to discuss your needs and specifications, and unlimited revisions until you're happy with the result. My prices are competitive with the 2024 rate chart of the Editorial Freelancers Association.
A Solidarity Discount is available for all independent creators who are queer, trans/nonbinary, POC, neurodiverse, and/or disabled
Discord
I have been analyzing Discord server structure from a professional standpoint for six+ years.
Over this time I have learned a great many skills, tricks, and quality-of-life improvements that will transform your servers into glowing beacons of efficiency and aesthetic.Whether your server is professional, communal (for a stream or show), or simply for your close friends to hang out in, I can make it easy and intuitive to navigate, and highly functional.
“Make My Server From Scratch!”
Flat Rate — $50
+$2 / channel up to 20 channels
+$1 / channel up to 40 channels
+$0.75 / additional channel
“Give My Server A Makeover!”
Flat Rate — $30
+$1 / channel up to 20 channels
+$.75 / channel up to 40 channels
+$0.50 / additional channel
Package includes:
Consultation to determine what you need and want out of your new server
Server roles and permissions set-up
Server onboarding set-up
Bot / Application set-up
Channel roles and permissions set-up
Education on Discord best practices
A guide on how to use, maintain, and update the above
Unlimited revisions until you are happy with the product and ready to send invites
Package includes:
Advisory consultation to determine what you need and want out of your server, and what changes should be made to promote server growth and good UX/UI
Server roles and permissions set-up
Server onboarding set-up
Bot / Application set-up
Channel roles and permissions set-up
Education on Discord best practices
A guide on how to use, maintain, and update the above
Unlimited revisions until you are happy with the product
Additional Options
For my $0.05 / word Copywriting rate, I can write your server rules, channel descriptions, and other informational or advisory text— such as specific rules for vent and self-promo channels, descriptions of roles for your onboarding, welcome messages, join / leave / ban notifications, and listings for Disboard and other server directories.
For a negotiable fee, I will make graphics for your server— banners, invite backgrounds, dividers for rules / welcome channels / announcements, etc.
If you would like me to come back and take care of updates in the future, as Discord continues to add features and as your needs change, I'm happy to do so for an additional fee— which we can negotiate based on complexity.
Live Streams
If you're new to streaming, or just have a smaller channel, I'm available to help you get set up! I can put together simple overlays, make channel logos / banners and help with writing descriptions, schedules, and the like. As I get more adept with my editing programs and eventually procure a drawing tablet, I intend to expand my services to include a wider range of options (like alert boxes). These services cover streaming via Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, etc. I can provide overlays for both horizontal and vertical mediums.
"Make Me An Overlay!"
Simple Overlay — $20
Complex Overlay — $40
Start/Break Card — $10
"Write My Things!"
Copywriting Rate — $0.05/word
Service Includes:
One image to your specifications
Consultation
Unlimited Revisions
Service Includes:
Channel Descriptions and Rules
Schedules and Bot Commands
Adverts for social media
"Moderate My Streams!"
Moderation — $5 / hour
Service Includes:
Stream moderation on an hourly basis — must be scheduled in advance.
Emergency short-notice moderation available as my schedule allows, for $7/hour
Carrd.co
The website you're looking at right now is built with Carrd.co. It is a highly versatile website builder that is easy to learn, but harder to master. With my several years of web design experience, I can build you a functional and beautiful website, and teach you how to maintain and update it.
"Create My Carrd From Scratch!"
Small Site - 5 pages — $60 ($12 / page)
Medium Site - 10 pages — $110 ($11 / page)
Large Site — $110 + $10 / additional page
"Give My Carrd A Makeover!"
Small Site - 5 pages — $40 ($8 / page)
Medium Site - 10 pages — $70 ($7 / page)
Large Site - 11+ Pages — $70 + $6 / additional page
Other Services
"Make A Logo For Me!"
Just A Logo — $30
Logo + Social Icons — $50
Full Brand Package — $100
"Write My Things!"
Copywriting Rate — $0.05 / word
Fiction Rate — $0.09 / word
Editing Rate — $0.04 / word
Other Services Available — Just Ask!
My Clients
"I hired Zeke to fix our Discord for DriveThruRPG.
Originally, our Discord had way too many channels and it was clunky in communication. Zeke set up a bot to help manage the members we had, wrote very good steps that were easy to follow and accessible, and created a new process that allowed us to focus on our active members.Zeke was there the whole way, helping me with questions and helping me understand the process, too. I highly recommend hiring Zeke for whatever your Discord might need and assist you in making it the best it can be. 12/10 would hire again."
Meredith Gerber
DriveThruRPG
"Working with Zeke was nothing short of an absolute pleasure. From the beginning, honest communication was stressed and provided. A full workup of all sensible options with in depth explanations was provided for everything that could be done, pricing was fair and sensible and honest timelines were provided for all work with no pressure on doing anything beyond what worked or made sense. The end products were lovely and clearly made by someone with an eye for design and were the definition of under promise, over deliver. I can absolutely be sure I'll be working with them again in the future and advise anyone who could use ANY of their services to do the same."
Josh Fagundes
Anoriand
“Zeke, in the short time ze have been a mod on my server and stream, has done wonders in overhauling the entire look, atmosphere and how things are run for the better. Zeke’s a class act, professional and a beacon of positivity that helps push towards inclusivity and safe spaces. I would be 10 steps behind on where I should be if it wasn’t for zem. I highly recommend contracting zem for the work ze do. You won’t regret it!”
Wes Franks
Carrion Comfort Studios
"Zeke has been absolutely wonderful. They are an absolute pleasure to work with. From designing new icons and banners for my personal brand, to game design, establishing templates and creating graphics for the board game we are developing as a team, I wouldn't want to work with anyone else!"
David
Draconic Archer
"Zeke is probably the absolute easiest person to work with. I am new to all this set up stuff and learning how I want things and ze were really good at being patient and explaining things and offering suggestions. Ze were also just great at overall communication and getting back to me and somehow worked way quicker than I would've expected of someone.
Sometimes when I didn't know what I was wanting Zeke would give me some options and somehow just know what I wanted. I highly recommend working with zem. Ze are a delight and create beautiful work and work very hard to make the pieces feel like you."
Ness
Loch Ness Gaymer
To show you exactly what it is you're purchasing when you hire me, I've provided some examples of my work below. These examples include a wide variety of different content that I have made for a wide variety of clients, and both professional and personal projects. You can also take this website itself as an example of my graphic design, web design, and copywriting.
These designs were created as part of Anoriand's rebrand. The business card, and associated logo, were made ahead of his trip to PAX East 2024, as a rebrand sneak-peek to those in attendance. Josh wanted his new branding to have a feel that was both sleek, modern, and professional-looking, as well as having a retro video game feel.
Together, we decided on a limited color palette of desaturated complimentary colors, as well as a font for the primary logo that would evoke the box art of some of his favorite retro fantasy games, such as Final Fantasy, Suikoden, and Fire Emblem (for the NES, PSX, and GBA respectively). The sword in place of the 'i' in Anoriand was my own artistic liberty, which he loved.For the condensed version in the server icon, I wanted to make sure that all of the primary aspects of his logo were present— including the pink in the color palette, from the decorative "new game" text. I combined that with the underline of the channel name in the main logo and came up with the bold pink stripe through the center.I also made the overlays for Josh's Twitch and Youtube streams, which you can see here.
I made this logo and Ko-Fi banner for my husband. He wanted to create a brand identity as he began to establish himself as a Minecraft modder, and in hopes marketing his other skills."Draconic Archer," or some variation thereof, has been his online handle forever, so it made sense to use it as his brand. The name comes from his eastern and western zodiacs— Sagittarius in the year of the Dragon— so it was important to make sure both of those ideas were well represented. The "dragon" aspect of the design is obvious, and Sagittarius is represented both in the arrow and as the constellation on the dragon's wing.
Above is the newest iteration of the logo (and Patreon banner) for my immersive media team, WeARGames. The original logo, which I also made, had several motifs which I consider to be key to the ~vibes~ of the content we make — particularly the eye, key, and question mark. Those were the things I wanted to bring forward into the new design, but in a sleeker and more professional way.When I purchased a brand package from an artist on Fiverr a number of years ago, the designer chose a bold blue as the primary accent color, and it became an important aspect of our aesthetic. When I acquired the skill and confidence to reimagine our brand identity on my own, I wanted to incorporate that blue in the new designs. In order to let it shine, I decided to go with more desaturated colors for the rest of the palette.
Anoriand
Christ Episcopal Church
Loch Ness Gaymer
Personal Projects
Chroma is a Greek mythology-themed "magical girl" sentai TTRPG, which I created for the Fari RPGs Charge SRD Jam in 2022. I created an updated version of the original, jam-version of the game with updated graphics, streamlined mechanics, and additional content in winter 2023.The core of the game revolves around the team of magical heroes and the "Chroma" (color-based magic) they've had bestowed upon them by one of the Greek Muses or Furies. Three versions of the book are available — one with full-color graphics, one which only includes essential images (such as the scenario map), and one which is fully plaintext for the widest accessibility.
The game also includes a spreadsheet-based character keeper, of which there is a blank copy and a pre-made character for each of the nine Chromas.
I also created a character keeper for the generic version of the SRD, which could easily be edited for use by other creators.
Ashes of Radiance is a soulslike TTRPG that I made for the Caltrop Core Jam in 2022. It sorely needs an update / finished product, but I'm proud of the state that it was in at the time of its posting (considering the jam only ran for 25 days).The concept and goal of the game was to emulate the mechanics of the original Dark Souls as closely as possible in TTRPG form, and with the restriction of only using d4s. It still needs work to achieve that goal, but I think I have managed to construct a world that fits squarely in the Fromsoft genre, as well as class options that fit the most common Souls builds — including an analogue to the Deprived in my Beggar class, which may or may not also be partially inspired by the infamous Patches, who seems to make an appearance in most of FromSoft's games.
While not exactly a TTRPG, Grindstone is a dungeoncrawler board game I've been developing alongside my husband since ~2017. We've had a functional playtest version of the game on Tabletop Simulator for quite a while, but our game assets were very simplistic. I've recently begun giving our game the glow-up it deserves and sorely needed.
Showing examples of the work that I do on Discord is... difficult. Most of the work is not visible, as it lies in things such as roles and permissions, which only admins and moderators will ever see. Most of good Discord design should be invisible to the average user. All that being said, here is a selection of examples from various servers I work on, both front-end and back-end.
These images show Category structures for various servers. Different servers have different organizational needs.
These show different aspects of the Onboarding process for the WeARGames Discord server.
Similarly, different servers can have wildly different role structure and permissions needs. These are examples of servers with relatively small role lists...
...in contrast with WARG, which has over 70 roles.
An important aspect of public-facing Discord servers (that is, ones meant for more than just your small group of friends), is having a quality listing on one or more of the server directories — of which Disboard is the most popular, and most trustworthy.