Leigh announced Offworld’s revival during the GDC’s #1reasontobe
panel and the response has already been incredible. But I’ll leave it to
her to tell you about it, because more than merely featuring her and
Laura’s work here, Offworld will have an AGENDA.
Ever thought games might not be for you? Join us. Here, games are for you.
Offworld is a place for curious and playful grown-ups, where we
can enjoy the endless possibilities of the 21st century’s greatest art
form. We’re here to express our love of exploring new worlds, to talk to
their creators, to share our discoveries, and imagine new frontiers to
play in together.
This will be an unequivocal home for women and minorities, whose
voices will make up most of the work published here. We’re central to
the growth and development of this warm, brilliant, expressive medium.
Our doors officially open next Monday, March 9. The journey was long, but we made it, and this is our space. Welcome Offworld.
October 16Comments Off on “There’s no easy way to say this. I am a massive target for Gamergate/8chan.co right now and it is…”Category: Feed, Games, Tumblr
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There’s no easy way to say this. I am a massive target for Gamergate/8chan.co right now and it is having horrible consequences for my life. They tried to hack my company financially on Saturday, taking out our company’s assets. They’ve tried to impersonate me on Twitter in an effort to discredit me. They are making burner accounts to send lies about my private life to prominent journalists. They’ve devastated the metacritic users’ score of my game, Revolution 60, lowering it to 0.3 out of 100.
With all of this, my only hope is that my colleagues in the industry will stand by me — and recognize the massive target I made myself standing up to these lunatics.
I woke up twice last night to noises in the room, gasping with fear that someone was there to murder me. I can barely function without fear or jumpiness or hesitation. I’ve been driven from my home. My husband says he feels like he’s been shot.
But I have to be honest: I don’t give a f*ck.
I am mad as hell at these people, and I’m not going to let them keep destroying the women I love and respect.
October 16Comments Off on “”The main target of GamerGate is not a journalist. She’s a video game developer. […]
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“The main target of GamerGate is not a journalist. She’s a video game developer. […]
“If what you don’t like about gaming journalism is that it’s too cozy with the industry and therefore the writers are afraid to be critical, then your f*cking hero should be Anita Sarkeesian. She funded herself with Kickstarter and not industry money.
“One of the most important ideas when it comes to ethical journalism is that there’s a wall between advertising and editorial. Publications are not supposed to let the demands of advertisers dictate content. “
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“From outside, people have the same prognosis for videogames that they have about, say, the Sudan.
This state of affairs ought to chasten us. It ought to revise our understanding of the scope of the work before us.
For example: if you want to fight for diversity in games, then absolutely you should fight to broaden representation among players, creators, and characters.
But there’s another kind of diversity: the diversity of our interests and our dispositions, of the company we keep and the influences that inspire us, the people and the groups and the industries and the materials that we contact. It has to do with having dealings enough with the world such that it is no longer possible to be seen as a parochial backwater not even worth opposing let alone supporting.
