crowdfunding
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Board Game Exec Says ‘Females Are Socialised’ To Avoid ‘Harsh Criticism Of Their Abilities’
Earlier this week Wingspan designer Elizabeth Hargrave wrote a Twitter thread outlining a glaring issue the board game industry has with representation: namely, that there simply aren’t enough games winning awards and getting published that have been designed by women.
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Summerfall Studios’ Music RPG Is Now Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Melbourne developer Summerfall Studios has renamed its upcoming interactive musical adventure game. The game will now ship under the title Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. The title change comes as the studio announces a new publishing partnership with Humble Games. Stray Gods tells the story of a woman named Grace. When the Last Muse of…
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Kickstarter Announces Blockchain Future, Doubles Down After Users Say ‘No Thank You’
Last week, Kickstarter made a rather terrible announcement: the crowd-funding platform would be switching its services to the blockchain, somewhere it absolutely does not need to go, but feels compelled to anyway by the lure of…something. Probably money.
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U.S. Healthcare Is So Trash This Game’s Localisation Needed Changing
The American healthcare system is so uniquely terrible among developed countries that a localisation team translating a recent indie game had to completely replace a line about crowdfunding an emergency medical procedure because it wouldn’t make sense to players outside of the United States.