Emma Kidwell 🔜 GDC | Looking for work ✨

Promotional poster for the panel, featuring the headshots of moderator Perrin Kaplan and panelists Dean Takahashi, Jeff Grubb, Nathan Grayson and Stephen Totilo

If you're attending GDC next week, please consider attending this panel about The Rise of Independent Game Journalism, featuring some so-called experts on the topic

(Monday, 3:10-4:10pm, West Hall - Room 3005)

schedule.gdconf.com/session/the-...

when senior talent is laid off:

i've been looking forward to Loading... for a long time! yay!

definitely "The Evil Bonehead"

Women's Day Sale event graphic - on Steam March 6-15th. Perfect Tides: Station to Station is 20% off, reduced from $19.99 to $15.99.

Starting today, Perfect Tides: Station to Station is 20% off during the Women's Day Steam event.

This is the first time ever the game is on sale! A great chance to get your copy or grab one for a friend.

store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

COMPUTER WORLDS: A Showcase of Strange & Distinctive Games - Coming to noclip_2 YouTube video by noclip_2

INTRODUCING COMPUTER WORLDS

A showcase of strange & distinctive games created by independent developers - premiering next week on noclip_2

SAVE THE DATE
MARCH 12th - 1PM ET / 10AM PT

WATCH & PLEASE SHARE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYRp...

✋me please

Juniors, Associates, Interns: Why They Matter and How to Support Them | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming As the industry bleeds talent from mass layoffs, it’s more crucial than ever to not only bring juniors onto teams, but also set them up for success so they can thrive and begin the path towards becomi...

this meme is in a slide I have for the panel I'm on, which you should come to: schedule.gdconf.com/session/juni...

830792528 Polygon The Rise Of The Video Game Union : Nicole Carpenter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive “The Rise of the Video Game Union” is an all-in-one explainer on why game workers are unionizing. Polygon created a zine of the original story that is...

With GDC only a few days away, I added @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social's brilliant gaming union zine/explainer to archive.org. The previous host for the PDF added a monthly subscription.

Please feel free to print and share as you wish!

when senior talent is laid off:

THANK YOU for noticing her

yeah it's pretty goated

i liderslly hope you do

the villagers need to start bullying us again

The way this was so easy for me was kinda scary (picture Uncharted 4 in place of nathan drake's beautiful back)

keep it up! happy to provide support besides boosting if you ever need it

i need a whiteboard where instead of counting "X many days since the hero's journey was mentioned" i think and or say "oh so it's like that one thing in Mass Effect"

HEY 👇

so secretly we've been working with a cabal of indie devs making the type of strange & distinctive games that we love to play on noclip_2.

tomorrow we're announcing a SHOWCASE on noclip_2 as part of an upcoming Steam Festival about these games.

it's gonna be fun.
we hope you tune in.

hell yeah, really love that yall are doing the good work danny

dude the first one is literally perfection

innit

I'm not telling you who I nominated (teehee) but celebrating the people who don't make you feel like the industry is cursed was a great pick-me-up

Nominations for Game Dev Heroes are open! This is a great time to nominate a writer doing the kind of work you want to celebrate (there are lotsa categories outside of leadership)
gamedevheroes.co/nominations/

I am giving a talk tonight for the OGDA on Publishing Agreements, and they have been kind enough to allow the link to watch to be open to the public! This will be starting at 9:45 PM ET and the link below allows you to join as a viewer on Riverside!
riverside.com/webinar/regi...

if every AAA studio pivoted to single player campaigns where the protagonist is a hot man who the marketing team sluts out for the girls/gays/theys i think we can save the industry

showing up to the battle of the bands with toma otowa

do you know how insane it is to take an instrument that looks like THIS and make it go crazy

The Way of the Shamisen YouTube video by Toma Otowa - Topic

listening to someone absolutely shred on a shamisen is really great to write to, btw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap-I...

it's 2026 and the white house is posting memes about killing people

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