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Let's heckin' do this.
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What do you wanna learn more about?
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More specifically, I'd like to create a game design studio as a space for LGBTQIA+ and people of color to generate work that is meaningful and empowering for them. I can't control or really even imagine what this could look like but I know it probably won't be the next Call of Duty. This space will enforce healthy work habits and foster a culture of care over production deadlines.
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concepts that currently exist in game companies:
**Crunch Time:**
a state of stress and anxiety trying to finish a game and get it to release on time. Often characterized by several days of overtime and unhealthy working habits.
(click: "Crunch Time")[Alternatively, **//Lunch Time//**:
a state of bonding between employees. Work talk prohibited! Everyone brings their lunch and eats together around a table. Promoting healthy eating, eating regularly and team bonding.]
**Make a Game Then Lay Everyone Off** (theres not catchy cool name for this? High turn over?):
Many companies can only afford to bring in specialists into a team near the end of production. At the end of the game's development much of the team will be fired because the studio won't know what skills their next venture will need.
(click: "Make a Game Then Lay Everyone Off")[Alternatively, "**//The Year of Play//**": (click: "Year of Play")[(open-url: "https://youtu.be/Jni96fmEXEo?t=162")]
Instead of firing everyone and moving on to the next 3-5 year game, encourage all employees to design, learn, and play with the material that is game design. Encourage collaboration between unlike departments (i.e. HR and animation, etc) and allow for rest and research to flow before moving on to a new venture.
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(if: $routes is 0)[[[ANYWAY -> contribution]] (click: "ANYWAY")[(set: $routes to +1)]]Sorry bud, all I could find was this one company, Midboss LLC.
Here's their About/Mission Statement:
(click: "About/Mission Statement")[**//MidBoss seeks to make the world better, safer and more inclusive to marginalized people, especially those in the gender and sexuality spectrum.//**]
(click: "MidBoss")[//(and I worked there.. they still had crunch deadlines and in the past the CEO/founder had major alligations of sexual harrassment so.. yikes)//]
(click: "more inclusive")[As it is, the video games industry is seen as rooted in militaristic ideals of violence, misogyny, and racism...yikes]
(click:"yikes")[but the culture we see of games now didn't start out this way.
[[why is this the first i'm hearing of this?? -> historical]]
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]Ok, this isn't really the first time? Marginalized folks (specifically white women) have always had a hand in computer software and game design (i.e. Carol Shaw the first female dev hired by Atari and Lori Cole for Sierra Games) //((link-reveal:"polygon")[(open-url:"https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed")])//
(click:"first female dev")[[[seriously!! this can't be new!!! you're plagerizing!!! -> examples]]
[[you seem to be vibrating..? what are you so excited about? -> excited]]]You're right! Some people are creating spaces for these different and experiences:
Small studio making games about the relationship people have with their phones and anxiety //(**TRULUV** (link-reveal: "www.truluv.ai")[(open-url: "http://truluv.ai/selfcare/")])//
Summer camp for queer youth to explore game design and learn narrative play through coding //(**Mavin Youth** www.mavenyouth.org)//
Exposing young girls of color (7-17) to technology and code. Empowering these communities into digital spaces //(**Black Girls Code** www.blackgirlscode.com)//
(mostly East) Asian centered film narrative story-telling at every level. //(**Wong Fu Productions** www.wongfuproductions.com)//
What exists now is mostly queer or POC centered game event spaces:
(click:"event spaces")[**Different Games** www.differentgames.org
**Gaymerx** gaymerx.org
**INeedDiverseGames** ineeddiversegames.org
**Able Gamers** ablegamers.org]
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Yeah. So.
I wanna make a game design studio that specifically employs POC and LGBTQIA+ people.
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[[<img src = "https://media.giphy.com/media/8lQyyys3SGBoUUxrUp/giphy.gif"> -> menu]]]Games are made for a specific population.
The majority has historically dictated the market of games.
like (link-reveal: "this guy")[
<img src = "https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/1905920/237614941/stock-photo-young-guy-playing-video-game-funny-holding-one-joystick-in-his-mouth-and-one-in-his-hands-addicted-237614941.jpg">]
NOT ANYMORE.
-challenge games to be MORE different
(click: "MORE different")[-Garner more empathy for folks in the margins]
(click: "more empathy")[-Reform the culture of making and playing games]
(click: "Reform the culture")[this can [[reform the culture -> contributioncont]] of making and playing games too]Games have historically been made by (and for) specific populations
(click: "made by")[<img src = "http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/c/c2/Fo4_developer_team.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151113172650">]
(click:"(and for)")[-representation is truly only skin deep (and stereotypical)]
(click:"(and stereotypical)")[-attempts at representation feel (link-reveal: "bad")[
<img src = "http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/1116372892.jpg">
//((link-reveal: "grand theft auto")[(open-url:"http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/1116372892.jpg")])//]]
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(link:"solution?")[ [[COLLABORATION]] !!
<img src = "https://media.giphy.com/media/t6f2bNAjx7Bio/giphy.gif">
//((link-reveal: "giphy")[(open-url: "https://media.giphy.com/media/t6f2bNAjx7Bio/giphy.gif")])//]-include POC & LGBTQIA+ in the design process not as a token after-thought
(click: "after-thought")[-studio founded in the margins takes pressure off of the marginalized and the ways they want to represent people/work they want to create]
(click: "create")[-different people might want to say/make different things with games]
(click: "with games")[-the more difference in a room the more interesting the product can be!]
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that's it (link-reveal:"[[folks -> sources]] ")[
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CREDITS:
vian - yo i did all this
code help:
w3schools.com
twinery forums
harlowe 1.2.3 manual
jaredatnexus' help video
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CITATIONS:
(click: "CITATIONS:")["No Girls Allowed" by Tracey Lien https://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed
(#)SelfCare by TRULUV
http://truluv.ai/selfcare/
"Game Jam Island 2 - Ep 1:ITS REALLY GOSH-DARN HOT" by FreeLives https://youtu.be/Jni96fmEXEo
Midboss LLC. Mission Statement https://midboss.com/about.html]
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