Reading Between the Lines

In the last three months I have read three books. The reason it has taken me this long to read three books is because they're about games, and therefore not about me. I will explain this as I go along, but the basis of it all is that I am a woman. In game design... Continue Reading →

The solution to all our problems.

In game dev. Stick with your decisions. Make sure iteration is covered and accounted for in planning. Stop expecting people to work out of "passion for games". Hire more producers. Hire more people who believe that process is a good thing. Hire more Black, indigenous, Latin, Asian, mixed race, women, trans and non-binary people. Stop... Continue Reading →

Where do we start?

People have been asking me, for as long as I’ve been playing games and being a part of the games industry “what do we do? How do we fix this?” That is - of course - a massive question with a complicated answer. I think the first question - and the hardest question to be... Continue Reading →

Intersectional Game Development

This is a post that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and it is possible that I’ve already touched on the subject previously. I speak a lot about equality and diversity, and how games sometimes let us down when it comes to narrative, and representation. In this post I’ll be talking about how all... Continue Reading →

Defiant goblins and hobgoblin porn

On rare occasions, most commonly after having read about the latest sexual harassment story or having heard about another abusive man (they’re mostly men) in table-top role-playing spaces, I ask myself why I stick around in a culture that so obviously have issues with people who are Black, Asian, Latino, Indigenous, mixed race, women, non-binary... Continue Reading →

Don’t put the onus on margies

We’re celebrating Pride this month, and in the interest of pulling some weight and explaining how the work with inclusion and diversity affects marginalized people and how privileged people sometimes add to that burden, I want to talk about a situation that probably happens more often than you’d think. The recruitment talk. Whenever one of... Continue Reading →

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