A thread about worker cooperatives in Québec and the resources that exist to support their creation! Worker coops exist to provide jobs for their members, as opposed to non-cooperative businesses which exist to grow the capital of their investors through exploitation of labour.

How to Draw a Horse by Emma Hunsinger has lived inside of me for years since I first read it

“Studios won’t take meaningful risks because [game development] is so expensive, and individual people can’t question the politics of the games they’re working on because they need to have a job at the end of the month. Storytelling is a labour issue.”

Managed to catch a supercell forming very near our home today, that was pretty cool! (We are safe, the storm narrowly avoided us and all we got was strong winds and rain)

For this year’s pride celebration we’ve put together an article on the connections between LGBT struggles and labour issues, some of the barriers and injustices queer workers face in the games industry, and the role of the labour movement in fighting back medium.com/@gwumlit/toget…

Qu'est-ce qu'on en commun les studios Bold Spirit Game Studio , Queensguard Games , @BoobooBouchard , WAG et Triple Boris ❓ Ils sont venus présenter leurs jeux lors de GLITCH à l' NAD des arts numériques, de l'animation et du design (NAD-UQAC) ❗ Article ci-dessous.

It's us!! So proud to see our little Sproutling Glas in the thumbnail 🌱 Thank you SharedScreen.ca / Video Games Explained !!! And thank you Nora Hébert for presenting the game 🌟

Always so shook at how incredible Cartomancy Anthology is!! Every game such a gem of creativity and Indie Heart and Soul ™️ Absolutely check out this incredible talk by cesca and 🇲🇽sam🇵🇷 !!!

Ride along: Montreal launches first Airbnb enforcement squad in North America — Huge new fines and a team of dedicated inspectors investigating short-term rentals. Full story and video here: ricochet.media/en/3993/ride-a… #InvestigatingAirbnb #qcpoli

Thank you to IVGD and Phil Rostaing for hosting an amazing Montreal playtest event last night! We're so glad that we could share the latest build of our game Shards Between Us🌿

Sweet Baby Inc Confirms You Need No Prior Knowledge of GamerGate to Enjoy GamerGate 2 hard-drive.net/hd/video-games…

What people say: “Game companies have an evil woke agenda and are forcing DEI on us.” The reality: “Square Enix told multiple developers it didn’t want Life Is Strange to be thought of as the “gay game.”

Shards Between Us is taking part in the #CerebralPuzzleShowcase ! Demo is out on Steam 🌱 plus there are loads of wonderful puzzle games taking part, so you should check out the showcase regardless 😊 store.steampowered.com/app/2272410/Sh…

Go and wishlist my friend's game!

Woohoo! Shards Between Us has been selected to be a part of Zone De Jeux Indie (Indie Game Zone) with Loto-Québec ! 🎉 We're excited to be attending #MontrealComicon with our little plant game and we'll see you there! 🪴 A huge thank you to Loto Québec!!

If you created an investment fund for western capital to profit from the labor of global south developers, that's not some great anti-colonial effort to "create jobs" for the needy, it's just normal, IMF microloans style imperialism.