This category is dedicated to posts about the gaming community: events, meetups, interviews, and all things related to our crowd.
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 →Obviously, Sexism in games is kind of a deal around here, and we’re always looking to up the signal, broaden the conversation, and keep talking about the issues until they improve. (And they can and DO improve!) So when GaW’s own Professor Jessica Hammer turned me on to GTFO, a documentary in the making...
Read more →Standard Action is a live-action online webseries currently Kickstarting their third season. The show is about a motley crew and their adventures, including a barbarian elf and halfling bard. I had the opportunity to interview the women involved with Standard Action and learn more about their work on the show and their gaming backgrounds!...
Read more →Continuing the feature about my local gaming organization, GASP (Gaming Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania), I took the opportunity to interview one of the GASP founders. Don McCalmon is one of the GASP coordinators who I met at GASPcon. If you would like to see the interviews of some of the women players at GASP,...
Read more →I was lucky enough recently to have the chance to interview women who attend the events at my local gaming organization, GASP (Gaming Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania), as well as organizers of GASP. GASP’s recent convention (Fall 2012) had about 20-25% women in attendance, and that is awesome! It’s a good number to start...
Read more →I’ve been married for just over 20 years, and a parent for nearly 17. I’ve been a gamer the whole time. There are plenty of adjustments that had to happen for both those sentences to be true! We were the first people in our social circle to get married, and three years later the...
Read more →Job Hunters is a web series about mortal combat and after college hopefuls ready to kill for the job of their dreams. What I didn’t realize when I first took a look at their Season 2 Kickstarter is that three of the four brains behind the show are women! And they are some serious...
Read more →Gillian Fraser is the lead designer for Wicked Fantasy. Wicked Fantasy, currently KSing here, is a project where she and veteran designer John Wick are re-imagining fantasy races from scratch. As soon as I saw this Pathfinder supplemental had a woman as lead, I knew I had to talk to Gillian, and I was not disappointed! Here’s her fantastic...
Read more →Okay, so the title maybe gives it away. But! I promise that there will be a bit of a twist ending. Fine fine, not really a twist ending at all. Anyway, I’ll get to that in a bit. The Tournament I’ll admit, I was quite nervous. Worried about how I’d be perceived. About all...
Read more →JR Blackwell is the sort of woman who returns good to evil. If she were to be stabbed in the side by a mugger, after she was done dismembering the mugger, she could be heard to say, ‘Huh. Well. I’m bleeding and I have a hole in my side. What sort of good could...
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