The Dragon Awards, Game Dev Edition:
I’ve been informed that an indiedev community I’ve supported for years, since Soulash was in its infancy, has canceled me from participating in their events.
At this rate, I can’t say if any indiedev spaces wouldn’t de-platform developers for voicing “right-wing” opinions outside their communities, so I plan to start organizing one after releasing my next big update.
The goal will be to create a bank of knowledge and offer guidance related to indiedev that doesn’t require overthrowing the government and creating a communist utopia to build games sustainably.
And, maybe more importantly, to help bridge the divide between developers and gamers so that they are no longer split into separate bubbles with gatekeepers holding access to communities and funneling them to left-wing activism.
The only type of community that makes sense in gaming is player-centric – any other starts to have conflicting interests or abuse. It’s in everyone’s best interests to deliver what players want, except for government and corporate shills. A clear focus on gathering like-minded people around our shared passion for hobbies will help us all return to fun.
Let’s organize, build, and push for a meaningful change together.
Of course, he’s not going to gatekeep his new space, because that would be bad, right? So the infiltrators and subverters who kicked him out of the original space are going to invade and end up kicking him out of the space he created.
One would think that a game developer would be able to play this strategy out ahead of time. Perhaps he’s just not a very good designer.