At our local indie game night, we played Itras By by Ole Peder Giæver and Martin Bull Gudmundsen. Itras By is a tabletop role playing game with a very rules-lite system, not using dice, but descriptive cards to prompt the outcomes in conflicts and twists in the story, and giving the players a lot...
Read more →Wishing everyone around the world a wonderful women’s day! Women, cis- and transgender, all over the world. Take a moment to think of the women who make your life rich and full, the work and play they do every day. Think of the women around you in your community, people you know or have...
Read more →Welcome to the fifth installment of Dear Gaming As Women! We invite our readers to asks us anything – and we’ll do our best to offer informative, thought-provoking, and entertaining answers. In today’s letter, a reader who is frustrated with the options available in video games, asks women designers to take on the task of...
Read more →As mentioned in This Week in Gaming, cstarting on July 9, a virtual conference is happening on Google Plus: Indie+: A virtual convention. It’s a new phenomenon and a great way to meet like-minded folks, so I’ll talk about some of the highlights you may want to check out. What is it? Inspired by indie games,...
Read more →One thing that this blog helps break down is the idea that women geeks are uncommon. Many (thankfully not all) of us have had the feeling at one time or another that there wasn’t much community for women in the gaming world. One way to keep smashing these false images is to make connections:...
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