by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Oct 24, 2020 | Talks & Articles
Written by Mercedes Acosta With proper adherence to COVID-19 safety guidelines halting the physical convention circuit, many festivals have had to move entirely online. In the 2020 virtual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the “Night of the Indigenous Devs”...
by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Oct 13, 2020 | Talks & Articles
Written by Santo Aveiro-Ojeda In May of 2019, I released DON’T WAKE THE NIGHT under the label Brujeria @ Werk, a project I had been working on and directing since 2017. Talking about it makes that feel very far away, and it still feels weird to think about it...
by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Aug 13, 2020 | Talks & Articles
Just what is an Indigenous video game and what does it look like? Meagan Byrne, founder and Narrative Mechanics Designer at Achimostawinan Games, explores that question in relation to her own work at Dirty Rectangles 2020. Meagan Byrne is an Âpihtawikosisân (Métis,...
by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Jun 3, 2020 | Talks & Articles
As Indigenous game developers, we offer support in solidarity with Black game developers. Disparities for our communities have many crossovers, and it’s through games like Treachery in Beatdown City by Shawn Alexander Allen of Nuchallenger and Manuel Nico Marcano of...
by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Apr 18, 2020 | Talks & Articles
Elizabeth LaPensée gave the keynote for the IndieCade Climate Jam 2020! For those who have experienced colonial devastation, the apocalypse has already happened. How, then, can we look to those who came before us to help inform our actions right now with hope for the...
