Get Diverse Designers to Metatopia
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Hey there!
We're the Indie Game Developer Network, a collection of 50+ small press designers who support indie game developers making, publishing, and promoting fantastic games. The IGDN brings together a wide variety of developers–-including pen and paper, card game, and board game designers-- to share resources, sharpen ideas, and take collective action.
Last year, we launched our Metatopia Sponsorship to take collective action to expand the diversity in our community:
http://www.igdnonline.com/metatopia-scholarship-deadline-oct-3rd/
In essence, we were looking to bring new designers to Metatopia , securing a badge and a room for them and paying their travel costs to make it affordable to join the largest gathering of tabletop game designers in the country.
It was a huge success!
Sarah Richardson, now an IGDN member, was selected for the sponsorship and attended with her game, Bluebeard's Bride. Here's what she had to say about the experience:
"I went there with a sense of feeling exposed but left feeling pretty comfortable. And apply for the IGDN scholarship! I honestly thought I had no chance of winning. I figured there would be someone with more experience, better games, something. A real game designer, if you will, but that was nonsense. I had a game to playtest, and had an incredible experience.”
(You can read more about Sarah's experiences via her post on Women Write About Comics: http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/12/05/con-diaries-metatopia/)
We'd like to do more in 2015!
This year, we'd like to expand our efforts to bring marginalized communities to Metatopia. We've worked with Double Exposure to secure more badges and more rooms for folks, but we also wanted to open up the efforts to our community at large. We think you all probably want to help out with this cause, and we're excited to see how much money you can raise.
If we can get $500 of funding, we'll be able to send two new designers to Metatopia this year: one funded directly by the IGDN and the other funded through your contributions. That new designer will get to playtest their game (and network with designers new and old) at one of the best conventions in the world for game design.
Please contribute and help us make this trip a reality for more people like Sarah!
P.S. If you'd like to apply to get the sponsorship, the application window is open through October 9th. Just fill out this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/181AKIK0TicQVNn_Dj_YPqkAptRfKheXmowpKqsU_FVo/viewform
We're the Indie Game Developer Network, a collection of 50+ small press designers who support indie game developers making, publishing, and promoting fantastic games. The IGDN brings together a wide variety of developers–-including pen and paper, card game, and board game designers-- to share resources, sharpen ideas, and take collective action.
Last year, we launched our Metatopia Sponsorship to take collective action to expand the diversity in our community:
http://www.igdnonline.com/metatopia-scholarship-deadline-oct-3rd/
In essence, we were looking to bring new designers to Metatopia , securing a badge and a room for them and paying their travel costs to make it affordable to join the largest gathering of tabletop game designers in the country.
It was a huge success!
Sarah Richardson, now an IGDN member, was selected for the sponsorship and attended with her game, Bluebeard's Bride. Here's what she had to say about the experience:
"I went there with a sense of feeling exposed but left feeling pretty comfortable. And apply for the IGDN scholarship! I honestly thought I had no chance of winning. I figured there would be someone with more experience, better games, something. A real game designer, if you will, but that was nonsense. I had a game to playtest, and had an incredible experience.”
(You can read more about Sarah's experiences via her post on Women Write About Comics: http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/12/05/con-diaries-metatopia/)
We'd like to do more in 2015!
This year, we'd like to expand our efforts to bring marginalized communities to Metatopia. We've worked with Double Exposure to secure more badges and more rooms for folks, but we also wanted to open up the efforts to our community at large. We think you all probably want to help out with this cause, and we're excited to see how much money you can raise.
If we can get $500 of funding, we'll be able to send two new designers to Metatopia this year: one funded directly by the IGDN and the other funded through your contributions. That new designer will get to playtest their game (and network with designers new and old) at one of the best conventions in the world for game design.
Please contribute and help us make this trip a reality for more people like Sarah!
P.S. If you'd like to apply to get the sponsorship, the application window is open through October 9th. Just fill out this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/181AKIK0TicQVNn_Dj_YPqkAptRfKheXmowpKqsU_FVo/viewform
Organizer
IGDN Indie Game Developers Network
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Morristown, NJ
