Sustainable, fair, healthy?
Sustainable, fair, healthy? What do game devs want the industry to be like?
Sure, everyone knows that indie game devs produce creative, daring, challenging works. But what about work, singular? As in: their working conditions? This interactive panel discussion invites game devs to critically discuss how they actually work together, how they would LIKE to work together, and what to do when there's a delta between those two things.
Because, as it turns out: indie game development is hard enough as it is, so let's not make it worse for one another. That's why we want to share best practices on how to overcome difficult working conditions, and we want to learn from one another how to create healthy and sustainable team dynamics.
With
Ruth DorotheaEggel
Ruth Dorothea Eggel is a digital anthropologist, science and technology and game studies scholar at Cologne Game Lab, who loves to tinker with thought, methods and machines.
ThorstenBusch
Thorsten Busch is a Senior Lecturer at the ZHAW Center for Sustainability Leadership and a Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen.
PhilomenaSchwab
Philomena Schwab is a game designer and co-founder of Stray Fawn from Zurich, Switzerland.
DavidJavet
David Javet is a media studies scholar at the GameLab Lausanne, a narrative designer and the co-organizer of a 12-year-old monthly meetup of game developers.
