Thank you for dropping by and playing! We had a wonderful time at the Indigenous Futurisms Seattle @indigifuturists.bsky.social. 🎉

Achimostawinan Games: an Indigenous owned and operated video game company dedicated to developing Indigenous games for an Indigenous audience (and the world) while also helping Indigenous artists and communities develop interactive and digital content. @achimogames.bsky.social

We're participating in this year's @thehandeyesociety.bsky.social Super FESTival! 🎉

Reminder: Play Hill Agency and other cool games at the @dames4games.org booth in the Summit Building at Room 440! 🎉

Are you at PAX West? Go to the @dames4games.org booth where you can play Hill Agency! 🌟

Guess what? Hill Agency is going to PAX West!!

Posting this again for my half of the world. Morning! Wanna play an Indigenous cybernoir point and click detective game (for free) and talk about it? @achimogames.bsky.social is offering an opportunity to anyone no matter the size of your platform.

ISO: streamers, press, and anyone online with an opinion - would you like a key for Hill Agency: PURITYdecay? fill out this form!

This would also include opportunities to talk to the team! I really want to hear what people think of Hill Agency so please sign up!

Wanna play an Indigenous cybernoir detective game (for free) and talk about it? Sign up here: bit.ly/4nWbR1f This is open to everyone no matter the size of your platform! We want to hear what you think!

We just submitted!

Not this account because I'm mostly a little gremlin here, but my studio account: @achimogames.bsky.social. We put out an Indigenous noir detective game and will (finally) be doing a marketing campaign for it this year!

If you're looking to support Indigenous game makers Sept 30th as part of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada here's a thread of where you can start:

It's that time of the year again where me and my fellow Indigenous game devs get swamped with asks about Indigenous-made games. To make it easy we have a database of Indigenous-made games, articles, academic writings and video essays on Indigenous video games: www.indigenousgamedevs.com/database/

We have gotten BGG.com to add Cherokee to their list of languages. Winter Rabbit is the first game in their database published in Cherokee. The English version has Cherokee peppered throughout, and plan to include extra components entirely in the syllabary. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40...

If the trailer for Ahu Tiiko got you all excited you can follow here. www.kickstarter.com/projects/coy...

youtu.be/hQTag1Jzi8U?... New Trailer for the first major expansion for Coyote & Crow. Watch to the end.

Be sure to stop by and say 'hi' if you're at XP Summit!

Check out this amazing thread full of Indigenous game devs that you can support this Indigenous Peoples Month!

*whispers* I'm also fine giving free money to the poor

I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder... For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...

y’all the Palestine Relief Bunfle is 91% close to the 🤯half a million💰 goal. please keep sharing it around: itch.io/b/2321/pales... this cause needs all the support it can get.

Didn't realize you could make HTML out of pure jet fuel but the last paragraph of this @davidjroth.bsky.social Defector piece could melt a T-1000 defector.com/they-are-ins...

Palestinian Relief Bundle, offering 373 games for $8, has raised more than $426,000 so far

Land Back movements are protecting biodiversity, raising awareness about the climate crisis, and much more. How can those outside of the movement help them reach their goals? Writer Amelia Christnot dug into these questions and more in her piece for The Big Picture last week, don't miss it!

Does anyone still have a Twitter account that would be able to reach out to Random Bundle to let them know that "Hill Agency: PURITYdecay" should be tagged as a BIPOC Creator project? You can message them here: twitter.com/RandomBundle

Go get the Palestinian Relief Bundle! Help PCRF get to $500,000 raised! noescapevg.com/go-get-the-p...

Spoke with @drkowert.bsky.social at #GDC2024 about how silence from the companies Sweet Baby Inc. has contracted with may fuel the ongoing harassment campaign against the company (and other Black devs and organizations).

The First Nations University of Canada says an Indigenous journalism program will start classes in September.

We have set up a ko-fi account! Now you can support a small Indigenous indie studio directly either with monthly support or a one-time donation! Tiers and other perks will be added over the year as we start to ramp up to our next project!

Hill Agency was named one of #GDC2024 Best in Play! Check out the other amazing games that won~

@atawhaigames.bsky.social a Māori-owned game studio is doing something new and very cool!!

With the massive game industry layoffs, scammers are out in force to rip off desperate game devs. If you're approached about a job opportunity: *Verify the position on the official studio site, if possible *Don't share info like your SSN or banking numbers *DON'T WORK FOR FREE!

I have like 50 invites to Pillowfort I want to give away. Please consider them as a Tumblr & blogging alternative, and as a safe alternative in general. They have a strict 'no AI-art' policy. If you want an invite key, just comment here. It's user-funded, has no ads and no algorithm.

We are excited to announce that Hill Agency is now an official selection at the Maoriland Festival!! Check us and all of the other Indigenous works at: mff.maorilandfilm.co.nz

Hey all, Johnie Jay is cool ppl that got dealt a crap hand on the chronic illnesses. If you’re able to help it’d be highly appreciated!

This is an amazing story. Houston criminalized feeding the homeless, Food not Bombs continued to do so, the city has ticketed them dozens of times and occasionally arrested members but hasn’t been able to get a single conviction. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

three pointer from half court

*shooting a CEO with a harpoon gun* it’s sad but necessary. If we don’t keep their population in check they’ll destroy the environment

Nightshade is out, folks! This is from Ben Zhao and team at Chicago U, the same people who created Glaze. It's is a new way of defending your work from datascraping. tl;dr it poisons data well. Let's gooo Link to V1.0: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html

Shared by @shado_mag www.shado-mag.com on Twitter 🐦 “we should not underestimate the speed with which capital is able to absorb ideas and turn them into empty slogans. why wouldn’t capital be able to incorporate the idea of decolonization or decoloniality?” - François Vergès, political scientist

Just to pick up on something Youssef says in this coruscating piece - he is most definitely not "a fool for being a secular Muslim and an anti-Arab nationalism Arab, a person who believes in racial equality and liberal values". Read it. You may not be the same afterwards ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

if you have a game on itch consider submitting your work to the Palestinian Relief Bundle: itch.io/jam/palestin... i just did too. submissions close in ~6 days. “We believe it would help fundraising and show solidarity with the Palestinians.”

We just submitted! We will always stand in solidarity with Indigenous people against colonialism!