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Freelance 3D Artist 🌠 workin' on Croakwood! 🐸 Prev: The Mermaid Mask, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye kindrad.carrd.co | they/them #lowpoly #3dart #art #doodle #oc

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kindra!!✨✊UVW-CWA @kindradantone.bsky.social · Oct 21

Hi bsky folks, I'm Kindra!! ✨ I'm a 3D game artist and I really love stylized/hand-painted work!

I previously worked on Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye, The Mermaid Mask, and am currently with @texelraptor.com working on Croakwood 🐸!

🎨 artstation.com/kindradantone

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 2d

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 2d

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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kindra!!✨✊UVW-CWA @kindradantone.bsky.social · 14d

I'll be one of the speakers for our union workshop at #QGCon tomorrow!!! :]

United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 15d

UVW-CWA will be at the Queerness and Games Conference this weekend! ✊🌈

This Saturday, our worker-organizers will be running the workshop "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers."

We hope to see you there! #QGCon

Flyer that reads: "Queer Organizing 101: Building Skills to Make Change as Marginalized Game Workers" with QGCon and UVW-CWA logos at the bottom.

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CTIJ Montréal / GWU Montreal @gwu-montreal.bsky.social · 20d

QGCon is coming in just over a week! Come to our talk GAY PEOPLE UNIONIZE - WHY NOW, WHY YOU on Saturday 26th at 2pm in the auditorium to learn about why you (gay) should unionize, now! bsky.app/profile/qgco...

The QGCon Collective @qgcon.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please have a look at our schedule for #QGcon including our streaming sessions, which will be on our discord!

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · Aug 31

I genuinely adore freelancing. I love getting to do my own thing and work with so many incredible teams. But I gotta admit not being able to take long weekends because we don’t get paid federal holidays is the PITS 😭

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · Aug 12

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · Jul 28

Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech

In the last two weeks, we have seen a wave of censorship sweep across online retailers, particularly Steam and Itch.io. This is because of demands from payment processors as well as sex-negative activist groups like Collective Shout (originally reported by journalist Ana Valens, and then censored by VICE’s parent company).

UVW affirms that sex and sexuality belong in games. Games are works of art, created by workers who should be free to express themselves. It's important to encourage a healthy and critical discourse about the media we consume. One vocal minority cannot have the power to categorically silence creative expression, just because some sexual themes make some people uncomfortable.

Sexual art is art, sex work is work. Any attempt to suppress sexual art is an attempt to suppress all art. Any attempt to deny sex workers their dignity is an attempt to deny all workers their dignity.

Workers rely on platforms like Steam and itch.io to distribute their games, and it is workers who are suffering at the behest of this vocal minority. We call on the payment processors Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and any other companies demanding compliance with this unjust action to reverse their policies and stand with the workers who have lined their pockets for years with their labor. We call on Valve and the Itch.io leadership to reverse their policies and stand with game developers.

We encourage our members and the general games community to use the resources in the quoted post to contact these payment processors directly and express how strongly we object to their actions.

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kindra!!✨✊UVW-CWA @kindradantone.bsky.social · Aug 1

hey game devs, what kind of error do we think this is? 🤔

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Nadia Shammas @nadiashammas.bsky.social · Jul 10

Contrapoints comments on leftists picking up another “lost cause” in the case of Palestine is so disgusting that I’m starting to understand why she spotlights so many hours on the concept of leftist infighting…it’s all just aesthetic tone policing at the end of the day. Delete ur channel please

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mismedleym (COMMS CLOSED) @mismedleym.bsky.social · Jul 7

new guy unlocked need name ideas
#art #3d

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · Jul 2

Mass layoffs affecting thousands of workers. Cancelled development cycles sweeping years of hard work under the rug.

We have seen time and again how little the worker matters to corporate leadership.

🪶 Sign & share the first step for change:
actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...

We’re Done Playing

Video game workers strike back. Over the last few years, game workers have been struck by unprecedented mass layoffs, driven by corporate greed and short-term profit seeking. While employers treat us...

actionnetwork.org

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Michi HG - Shipping time @hgatoartt.bsky.social · May 10

Tch, respect trans people or perish!! #shadowthehedgehog
Reddaw from that famous DC x Sonic crossover panel🙂‍↕️👀

Redeaw of the popular Chaos Control panel from Dc x Sonic the hedgehog crossover comic, where Shadow, using a chaos emerald goes against darkseid. He is crossing his arms before him with one hand showing the palm and the other holding the emerald. In my version, instead of using his popular quote, they words say Respect Trans Lives Or Fucking Die

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South East Asia Game Aesthetic @seagamethetic.bsky.social · Jun 18

We recently launched a charity drive for Palestine on Itch, and we are seeking games and content from game devs and creators to participate in a bundle 100% of the proceeds going to UNRWA USA.

You can find more info by visiting our jam page
itch.io/jam/games-fo...

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Alleesaur 🌺🦖 @alleesaur.bsky.social · Jun 20

[ #oc ] realm within the stars

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shu @shuyawns.com · Jun 20

📞 just a phone call away

initially created this to be the second half of the clefairy scene, but i am loving the idea of gengar as well... how about a 3-way call? 😂

#b3d #pokemon #blender

a model of jigglypuff in a bright and warmly lit room. she has her eyes closed, talking on the phone, with a nutritious breakfast on the table.

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · Jun 20

they are blasting Hanoi Hannah at the marines in LA omfg this is so good

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · Jun 11

This past weekend, as hundreds of game workers flew into LA to attend Summer Game Fest, Immigration and Customs Enforcement terrorized the Los Angeles community, raiding neighborhoods, separating families, assaulting citizens, and detaining SEIU President David Huerta.

Many of us in the game industry call Los Angeles our home, and we feel these attacks on a deep and personal level. United Videogame Workers-CWA stands in solidarity with SEIU, UNITE HERE, United Farm Workers, SAG-AFTRA, The Animation Guild, IATSE, and all our fellow unions and organizations condemning these ongoing federal raids targeting workers.

We are thrilled that David has been released and echo SEIU’s calls to drop his unjust charges and for ICE to immediately end their violent raids against us and our neighbors.

The United States is built on the backs of immigrant workers, documented or otherwise, and the Trump administration’s racist and violent oppression serves only to undermine our labor and strike fear in our communities. As workers of an anti-racist union; as workers with H-1B visas; as workers with immigrant families and friends and colleagues; we condemn these abhorrent acts of outright fascism and colonial subjugation.

Our game industry is a deeply international one, and our art is built from cultures and perspectives that simply cannot and will not be contained by borders. UVW-CWA exists to protect all game workers across the US and Canada, regardless of immigration status, and we strive to extend that reach to all corners of the globe through connections and shared struggle.

When solidarity transcends nations, no human is illegal!

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Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · Jun 9

I fucking love this city, mannnnn!!! LA is with the shits. May we continue to inspire an entire generation and US-wide movement 🫡

Many protesters put their bodies on the line for people they may never meet or have more to lose
- people like Mar.
"People in LA have this sense of connection to each other whether they know each other or not," said Mar, who is undocumented and used a pseudonym to protect her safety

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · Jun 10

There is nothing more fundamental to the labor movement than the idea that an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. Over and over again throughout our history, wealthy bosses have relied on armed militias to suppress working people’s efforts to exercise our constitutional freedoms.

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Game Worker Solidarity @gameworkersolidarity.com · Jun 7

If you care about video game workers and want to follow all the game worker unions across the world, we've created a starter pack with all the ones on BlueSky.

If we've missed one, let us know!

go.bsky.app/PNcLPFU

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kindra!!✨✊UVW-CWA @kindradantone.bsky.social · May 2

if you're tired of this being the norm, here's a reminder to sign our petition!!
uvw-cwa.org

image from Mean Girls, text reads "Get in Loser, we're joining a union."

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Sesame Workers Union @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social · Apr 19

We are very excited to announce we officially have MERCH!

Proceeds go to a mutual aid fund for Sesame workers in need! 💚

A special thank you to our Swaggle Rock team for all their hard work in this endeavor 💚

shop.worxprinting.coop/collections/...

#sesamestreet #sesameworkersunion #union

A t shirt, tote bag, and hat representing Sesame Workers Union

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · May 9

NEW: Nearly 200 Overwatch 2 devs have unionized at Blizzard.

It's the second wall-to-wall union at the studio after the World of Warcraft team did the same last year.

Organizing members tell Kotaku the mass layoffs last year by Microsoft was one of the catalysts, alongside pay and RTO policies.

Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'

The wall-to-wall union of Blizzard Team 4 includes nearly 200 developers

kotaku.com

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · May 3

I would be a lot more happy about paying more for games if I knew that revenue was actually going to the devs who worked on it. Getting residuals would fundamentally change the structure and nature of this industry.

Graham Reid 🌴 @grahamoflegend.com · May 3

This $80 game discourse truly has me perplexed. On one hand, nobody, self included, wants to pay *more* for games, right? But am I mad at it? No, because some of these games are easily worth that and then some. If I could go back and pay $80 for Witcher 3 or GTA V? I wouldn't have even hesitated.

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Charlie Hall @charliehall.bsky.social · May 2

Our colleagues in the Vox Media Union have put together a Go Fund Me. Please, if you've enjoyed what we do... If I've ever helped you in some way... If you've ever loved something more because of what we've written... Please give what you can. The next few weeks and months are going to be hard.

Donate to Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union, organized by Ashok Selvam

On Thursday, May 1, Vox Media announced the sale of beloved video game s… Ashok Selvam needs your support for Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union

www.gofundme.com

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kindra!!✨✊UVW-CWA @kindradantone.bsky.social · May 2

if you're tired of this being the norm, here's a reminder to sign our petition!!
uvw-cwa.org

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