January 2021 Update
Happy New Year Indies!
Welcome to the year 2021, where everything is new and all our problems fixed… hopefully! In any case, we do hope you all had fantastic holidays and a bit of a break from the crazy year, and feel refreshed and ready to jump back into gamedev!
Monthly Recap
We had another fantastic Holiday Party this past month. Unfortunately we could not congregate in place as we normally do, but we’ve made do with a virtual event recreating all our favorites – karaoke rooms, drink and draw, the fireplace room, and even “waiting for drinks” room!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by and hung out!
You make this community great and these events worth organizing 😀
Upcoming Events
Global Game Jam is back on January 29! Due to the ongoing apocalypse, we’ll be jamming entirely over discord. Signup now to meet new folks at our pre-jam hangouts! GGJ is a great jam for beginners and people of all skill levels so please join us and we’ll find you a great team to work with and make games, friends and memories together. We’ll miss seeing you all in the friendly confines of Pacific Science Center chowing down Dominos, donut holes and coffee ☕ (so much coffee) but we’ll be together in spirt on Discord and still have a fun time.
Indie Support Group is still going strong as ever in the new year! Tune in every Saturday from 1pm on our Discord in the #isg-voice channel, Curious how to start learning something? Want to chat with someone of another discipline? Need a place to work on a project and share it with others? ISG is a social, game development focused work group that encourages people of all skill levels and disciplines to come together and collaborate for the benefit of all.
Game Club is back in January playing and discussing the critically acclaimed hit Hades. Check out the Event Here and join us on Discord on January 18, 2020 at 7PM Pacific!
The Seattle Indies Social is also back in January! Keep an eye on our Meetup, Discord or Facebook for more details. Join your friends from Seattle and beyond to catch up on what everyone is working on and doing to keep busy while we’re practicing social distancing.
On January 13, 2021 join IGDA Seattle for IGDA Seattle Global Meetups: Mexico City. IGDA Seattle would like to connect Seattle and Mexico City game developers to create bridges and explore channels for cross-border collaboration. Developers can participate in a series of online breakout sessions, each one with moderators from both cities and a topic to help people start talking.
Local Dev News
LtRandolph Says: Have you got what it takes to assemble an effective defense? Slap some modules in your towers and watch the chaos, in CrafDefense
ZW Buckley released a new album! This album is his love letter to the Persona series and Shoji Meguro’s incredible soundtracks. Check it out!
HoovlerInd just launched a Steam page for What’s Left Behind, a post-apocalyptic city re-builder game releasing on January 15. It has been 20 years since a plague ravaged the planet. The dead rose to shamble across the dense urban expanses and vast plains around the globe. Cities crumbled and humanity retreated into their last safe bastions to fend off the relentless hordes.
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Goblin King launched an alpha version of my multiplayer creative browser game. Free with no accounts. Just play and create and share via github right here!
Nicka206 launched a Kickstarter for Ethernia, physical, expandable card game inspired by MOBA games designed around being ANTI pay to win.
Harassment Policy, Black Lives Matter, and Resources
Seattle Indies believes the stories of the victims of sexual harassment and assault in the games industry that have been shared this past week and before. We strongly condemn the actions by people in power preying on the dreams of vulnerable people trying to make their way in the industry and strive to build an inclusive community that welcomes all minorities to provide a safe environment and a better vision for the game industry.
While our code of conduct states a zero-tolerance policy for harassment of any kind we are especially sensitive to the daily challenges faced by womxn due to the ingrained sexism that has existed in the structure of the games industry for far too long. We are actively working to build a better community of game developers and we all need to do better.
Additionally Board Member Sarah Belhumeur has offered to be a personal resource for anyone who needs help, someone to talk to or some guidance on next steps if you have experienced harassment in the industry either at our events or elsewhere. She can be reached at sarah@seattleindies.org.
Our friends at Take This Org have compiled valuable resources for anyone in immediate need of professional help for their situation.
Lastly, Seattle Indies and Diversity Collective+ support Black Lives Matter. Here are some resources compiled by Diversity Collective+ for how you can offer support, whether this is financial, contributing to petitions, preparing for protests, or getting informed. If you have additional resources, comment below and we will add them.
As always, keep an eye on our Discord for any last-minute news and discussion, and let us know about any projects you’re working on that you’d like shared on our Steam or Itch collections or tweeted about from @SeattleIndies!
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