To celebrate what’s been accomplished, what we want to happen in the future and thank you all for your support. So we’re doing a few things.

One, we’re soliciting your pics of folks in their #INeedDiverseGames gear. 

Please email us a photo of you, how you want to be credited (ie your tumblr, twitter, screen name) to whyineeddiversegames@gmail.com so we can show off everyone in their gear.

We’re also going to go back and collate any previously submitted tweets and images for posts.

Two, we just put out a call for stories from you all if we have had any impact on you. 

We’re so happy that a community has formed from a wee hashtag. If anyone has stories to tell us about diversity in gaming, if we have had any impact on you, how you think about games, we’d love to hear it!

Please send your story either by a submission to the blog:

ineeddivgms.info/submit

– Or –

if you want to tell your story but remain anonymous; email us at whyineeddiversegames@gmail.com  with “INDG Impact” in the subject of your email and we’ll post it on our Anniversary, October 7th 2015.

Third and last, we’re doing some fund raising to have a cushion for #INeedDiverseGames to grow up to a 503c Non-Profit Org.

#INeedDiverseGames is almost a year old! We want to do more to serve the community. Doing that takes money, especially if we want to grow into a 503c Non-Profit organization.

We want to be able to take donations and turn them into opportunities for the marginalized folks in the gaming community such as travel grants, covering registration for events such as IndieCade, GDC, IDGA memberships and more.

We also want to be able to assist others in their work outside of the scope of Patreon or other assistance. So this is a one time ask to make a future of assisting the gaming community for a better, more diverse future for all of us.

Thank you for making this year amazing. We couldn’t have done it without you all.

Published by cypheroftyr

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.