by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Mar 15, 2021 | Talks & Articles
Meagan Byrne, founder and Narrative Mechanics Designer of Achimostawinan Games, was featured in an interview on CanadianGameDevs.com! The interview covers Meagan’s path to game development, her experience in school, running a game studio and the financial...
by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Feb 5, 2021 | Talks & Articles
How do Indigenous game developers interweave Indigenous ways of knowing into design? What are some of the unique mechanics in Indigenous-made games? What technical innovations have happened for expression? At PAX 2020, Allen Turner (Ehdrigohr), Elizabeth LaPensee...
by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Dec 5, 2020 | Talks & Articles
Allen Turner was invited to be part of the Digital Storytelling Colloquium at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Kansas. An Afro-Indigenous game designer, storyteller, artist, dancer and author, Allen Turner believes in the power...
by indigenousgamedevs_kisgdk | Nov 17, 2020 | Talks & Articles
The panel “Decolonial Practices in Playful Media” at A MAZE. / Berlin 2020 discusses strategies and maneuvers in game development as they relate to resistance to and repair of colonial structures and ideas. Karina Griffith is in conversation with Allan...
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...
