1st Edition

Game Devs & Others Tales from the Margins

Edited By Tanya DePass Copyright 2018
156 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by A K Peters/CRC Press

156 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by A K Peters/CRC Press

156 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by A K Peters/CRC Press

Game Devs & Others: Tales from the Margins tell the true stories of life in the industry by people of color, LGBTQIA and other marginalized identities. This collection of essays give people a chance to tell their stories and to let others know what life on the other side of the screen is like when you’re not part of the supposed “majority”.   Key Features This book is perfect... Read more

Chapter 1  Fight-Free Fashion Agency

Chapter 2 Alex Zandra Van Chestein

Chapter 3  Resistance and Survival Through Community and Horror

Chapter 4  Black Unicorn

Chapter 5  Lauren Ashlee Comp

Chapter 6  The Creative Compulsion: A Reflection

Chapter 7 Laundromat vs. Pizza Place

Chapter 8  The Prevailing Need to Push for Protagonists of Color

Chapter 9  Game Design Is Not a Luxury

Chapter 10  Hadeel al-Massari

Chapter 11  Steven Spohn

Chapter 12 Sunset in the Caves

Chapter 13  Distraction and Reaction: On Allies and Terrible Allydom

Chapter 14 First Loves and True Representation

Chapter 15 Overcoming the Unicorns: Normalizing the "Other" in the Games Industry

Chapter 16  The Token Trap

Chapter 17  My Own Damn Game

Chapter 18  Second Acts

Chapter 19 Firmly Rooted and Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere: Freelancing While WOC

Chapter 20 Actualization and Action

Chapter 21  When Games Get Political with Me

Chapter 22  A Series of Half-Baked Ideas and Quarter-Assed Memes: Why I left Gaming Stories

Biography

Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit foundation based in Chicago, that is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. She is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, I Need Diverse Games spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She’s the Founder and EIC of the Fresh Out of  Tokens podcast, the Diversity Liaison for GaymerX and often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other  topics at conventions. Her writing appears in the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Vice Gaming, Wiscon Chronicles, Paste Games and other publications.