It’s been a few weeks since I’ve blogged. I’ve been working out how to balance blogging about my research with actually being an ethical ethnographer.
A couple weeks ago, I spent a day writing an epic blog post on the romanticization of indie narratives in things like Indie Movie: The Game, and how this can create false impressions about what the industry is like. For example, every developer in the movie experiences considerable hardship and sacrifice. …

Tanya Short wrote a great postmortem of the Pixelles project on Gamasutra. If you want to read more about running a games incubator focused on increasing diversity, you can read more here. The post includes logistical details as well as reflection on what went right and what went wrong.