Today we’re talking with Manuela Soriani, co-author of Dilemma, “a game about having power on other people and getting in touch with them”, powered by the Apocalypse. The blind playtest document is out now1. I urge you to check it out! But first, read more about the game and its author. Tell us something...
Read more →Welcome, dear readers, to our first GaW duel! We here at GaW have opinions and we all know what that means: pistols at dawn! Our Code Duello is quite simple: 1. The Moderator rules with an iron fist and a generous disposition. Her job is to steer the conversation if it wanders too far...
Read more →Hello readers, in the past few hours, you might have experienced some weirdness with the comments. Sorry for the inconvenience! This happened because we are implementing some changes in the management of comments. Over the site’s life we’ve seen the user base grow, and with it came the mixed blessing of a higher load...
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 →The Backup Ribbon Project is a new initiative to help make conventions a safer place for women and other victims of con harassment: If you take a Backup ribbon or you wear a Backup t-shirt, you are promising one very simple thing: You WILL be That Person to help out anybody being harassed. Gender,...
Read more →If you follow tabletop RPGs closely, you’ll already know who Amanda Valentine is. Her work as Development Editor and Project Manager on some of the most popular games over the past few years makes her one of the more important RPG professionals out there, and her impressive roster of collaborations includes Evil Hat, Margaret Weis Productions, Galileo...
Read more →Just 3 days to go for the latest flash-fundraising campaign by Machine Age Productions, Micro Games Mega Project. The 75 $ pledge gets you ALL THE GAMES (12, as of this writing.) – Giulia The topic of harrassment in videogames gets on the front page of the New York Times: the article, In Virtual Play,...
Read more →Welcome to the fourth 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 hasn’t GMed in a long time asks how to do so in a group with women, including new...
Read more →Illustration Art wrote a scathing commentary on the art at Comic Con: Once again, this year’s ComicCon brought together the world’s most diverse array of pictures of large breasted barbarian women wearing skimpy chain mail halter tops and brandishing broad swords. The post is hilarious (and sad), and I would encourage anyone...
Read more →Hello readers, here’s an update on a couple of recent site fixes and tweaks. You might have noticed a comment glitch in the past few days which didn’t allow comments to go through. Comments are fixed now, and should be working again as always. Also, I’ve tweaked a bit the styling, so that only...
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