This workshop about the fundamentals of team communication was taught during Rad Studio; Rad Magpie’s 11-week games incubator program.
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Along with the course content that we covered in Rad Studio Online, we would like to share the 2021 Orientation in order to provide some context. Rad Studio 2021 was a fully online summer program, and the information below was shared with the cohort of emerging game developers during their very first meeting. When creating this orientation, our goal was to capture the heart and soul of the program to get all the students on the same page.
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Rad Studio was an incubator program unlike any other. It focused on interpersonal relationships between team members alongside crucial social justice learning that prepared students for a more intentional career in games.
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In the wake of several waves of the #metoo movement in games, we are more aware than ever of how many industry workers’ lives are affected by harassment and assault in the workplace. The games industry is long overdue to get serious about workplace safety. This blog post outlines the ways studios, event hosts, and workers can get started down the path of making gaming spaces safer.
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Winter4Ever is a mid-march mini-conference hosted by Rad Magpie and our dear friend Amila Nuhodzic. The conference is meant to spark inspiration and bring together the gamedev community and reignite everyone’s creative fires despite the end-of-winter burnout that is commonly experienced by game developers in the far north.
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Rad Magpie’s overview of INCITE!’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded.” Rad Magpie’s leadership breaks down what TRWNBF taught them and discusses the resulting transformation of how Rad Magpie relates to the Non-Profit Industrial Complex as an organization.
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Black developers are a minority, but this community is growing, and a lot of avenues for support are popping up thanks to folks in the games industry who use their platform to support others. In this blog, Rad Magpie aims to celebrate this growing community of Black game developers and showcase a corner of this collective body of work. We also provide many, many links and avenues of support so you can explore on your own! Enjoy.
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Rad Studio is our summer incubator program for game development students. This year, nearly 30 budding game developers representing 10 colleges and universities joined us for an 11-week, all-online program. Our phenomenal cohort formed three teams and brought the following prototypes to life.
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