#INeedDiverseGames is a year old today!
October 7, 2015
To celebrate this milestone, we had a chance to chat with our friends over at @Unconsoleable where Anna Tarkov and Jessica Dennis talk about the world of mobile gaming!
Download the MP3 // Listen over at Unconsoleable on ESN FM
Today is the first anniversary of #INeedDiverseGames and to celebrate, we welcome our friend Tanya DePass on the show to tell us all about it and what she’s up to these days in her quest to make games more diverse.
We need diverse games on mobile too, by the way, so we introduced Tanya to Piloteer, which has a kickass black woman as the only character. It turns out the developer made her that way because he was inspired by #INeedDiverseGames! So there’s all kinds of feels at that part :-)
Tanya also shared her experiences since #INeedDiverseGames started and the ups and downs of suddenly being thrust into the spotlight. So sit back and enjoy; you might even learn something.
Rate and review us on iTunes so everyone knows how awesome we are, follow us on Twitter and email us if you want us to be outraged about something. LOL, just kidding, we don’t need any help being outraged. But email us about anything else :)
Stuff we mentioned:
- Contribute to the #INeedDiverseGames GoFundMe
- INDG Patreon
- INDG will be at IndieCade
- Mikki Kendall
- Fresh Out of Tokens
- David Reeves
- Anna’s & Tanya’s panel at Gaymer X
- Shawn Alexander
- Ken Gagne
- JJ from Minus World
- Geek Girl Con
- ValorCon
- Uncanny Mag article about diversity at cons
- WisCon
- #ShoutYourAbortion
- Tanya’s piece on Medium about suddenly woke white folks
- Tim Wise
- Gang Nations
- Mad Max
- The Walking Dead
- Life is Strange
- Distress Kickstarter
- Dragon Age
- Fallout Shelter (iOS & Android)
- Piloteer (iOS, Android, & Steam)
- Drawn to Kill (iPad only)
- The Rocketeer
- Whitaker Trebella
- IGN video
- Alphabear (iOS & Android)
- Asphalt
- Land Sliders (iOS only for now)
- You Must Build a Boat (iOS & Android)
- Bejeweled Blitz (iOS & Android)
- Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal
- Mass Effect 2
- Bloodborne
- Happy Wheels (iOS only)
- Contra
Originally published at medium.com on October 7, 2015.
