In case you missed my excited muppet flailing last night! Found out our panel for is approved! Please note the schedule is NOT final. So the final time/date could/might change.
The title is: We Need More Diverse Games, How do We Get there?
Some of the points we’ll cover:
- Why it’s important to have representation
- What games are doing this well
- What games aren’t doing this well
- Diverse games mean X to me
- What we’re doing to improve that diversity or lack thereof
My co-panelists are Gil Almogi, DJ Kirkland and Rachel Keslensky!! I’ve linked to their speaker bio’s on the GaymerX site. Here’s my speaker Bio.
OK I KEEP GRINNING ABOUT THE FACT THAT I have a speaker bio!
More on the panel as it shapes up. I really hope to see many of my friends there! For now I’m gonna go flail more.
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Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, which is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. I Need Diverse Games serves the community by supporting marginalized developers attend the Game Developer Conference by participating in the GDC Scholarship program, helps assist attendance at other industry events, and is seeking partnership with organizations and initiatives.
Tanya is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She founded and was the EIC of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast where games culture was discussed and viewed through a lense of feminism, intersectionality and diversity. Now she’s a co-host on Spawn on Me Podcast. Along with all of that, she’s the Programming Coordinator for OrcaCon, she often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at multiple conventions throughout the year. Her writing about games and games critique appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Wiscon Chronicles, Vice Gaming, Paste Games, Mic, and other publications.
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I wish I had all the money to go to conventions. All the panels you go to sound awesome.