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Pixel artist + game designer currently working on Dwarf Fortress and other mysterious projects Portfolio: https://ckjong.artstation.com/
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Joined this morning and you can too uvw-cwa.org/membership

#WhatAGamedevLooksLike

JOIN THE UNION POWER TO THE WORKERS ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

March through Yerba Buena at gdc from the game workers union @cwaunion.bsky.social

Industry-wide union UVW-CWA has already welcomed over 100 new members

new video game union just dropped #UVW-CWA

As a VA, gamer, & close friend of devs, I’m sick of seeing workers treated as disposable. Colleagues have been suddenly fired, uncredited, & bonuses rescinded. Canceled games meant resume gaps. Workers’ passion & labor deserve respect and pay that reflect gaming’s record profits! uvw-cwa.org

Want to learn more about UVW-CWA? Find us at our #GDC2025 booth: C1701

Come check out our photo booth!! #weredoneplaying #uvwcwa #codecwa #gdc2025

Having fun at the CODE-CWA booth #weredoneplaying #uvwcwa #codecwa #gdc2025

Hard to express in words how much this means to me. If you’ve ever felt disrespected or angry at the injustices workers in our industry suffer on a daily basis, if you’ve ever thought “things could be better”, now is the time to do something about it!

✊✊✊✊✊ www.ign.com/articles/vid...

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

cwa, which represents over 2,000 workers across companies like microsoft, is launching a new games industry-wide union that anyone can join, even laid-off workers. with legal frameworks for organizing under attack, it's a return to tactics that predate those systems aftermath.site/uvw-cwa-vide...

Cat's out of the bag! This is what we've been working on!

so incredibly fucking stoked for the announcement today!!!! WE'RE DONE PLAYING. game developers deserve better-- let's build an industry that sustains us and lets us grow & thrive. TOGETHER ✊♥️✊♥️✊ @videogameworkers.bsky.social

"Gazan children deserve more than survival. They deserve more than to simply be unmolested by the whims of tyrants. They deserve futures, joyful futures. They deserve to babble and giggle with their parents. They deserve to live free, from the river to sea." @hebagowayed.bsky.social

Just a reminder that I am open for work: 1. Game writing and narrative design 2. Copyediting/subediting 3. Copywriting and marketing 4. Ghost writing I have >20 shipped game credits to my name including Cozy Grove and You Are Jeff Bezos, and I've worked on properties including League of Legends

Folks are starting a #safeGDC tag, so I thought I’d share my own thread here that I made on the other site back in 2024. As one of *many* who had her drink spiked back in 2023, I want to emphasize safety around parties. I’ll try to keep it short. 1/10 🧵

If you're going to #GDC2025 this year here are 4 different union and worker coop related talks to check out. 🧵

Have, unfortunately, seen this happen first hand. Don’t trust your boss, no matter how small time they are. Join a union, or join or form a co-op. We keep each other safe.

as the games industry labor movement grows, expect the first line of reactionary response to be indie business owners complaining about how they're smol beans who can't afford to run a business if they have to recognize their employees' rights and allow them to have decent conditions

Also in case you think this is solely big companies trying to pull this shit off: lol and lmao, no it fucking isn't. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/angry-v...

Made it to level 12! anyone able to beat me? (I am very bad at weiqi so it shouldn't be too hard)

Not quite. Freelance unions can be formed by other means, such as joining an existing local, or working with a union which is willing to put the resources into growing a freelancing campaign. This IS how WGA and SAG-AFTRA have started: mass mobilization of studio workers and contractors

This feels like a major inflection point. If ICE can apparently unlawfully arrest & disappear a permanent resident and it is not immediately met with strong opposition from the public, officials, and courts, there is no going back.

Columbia University is colluding with Nazi terrorists and other fascists to disappear its own students: www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Migrants are being blamed for everything from the housing crisis to hospital wait times to joblessness—and it couldn’t be further from the truth. In our new video, migrants and advocates debunk the myths that Canada’s elite are using to distract and divide the rest of us.

women can do anything.

This one features me and @jessromarcotte.bsky.social!

If you're going to #GDC2025 this year here are 4 different union and worker coop related talks to check out. 🧵

🔴🌪️ STRUGGLE PAYS: AGREEMENT REACHED AT DON’T NOD Management wanted to fire them like trash, but workers won in reducing the numbers of layoffs, a 13 000 € compensation in addition to the legal minimum, and strike days being paid. Details here: www.stjv.fr/en/2025/...

Make a negatively received game due to poor management, crunch, & absurd deadlines from higher up - get fired Make a critically acclaimed game DESPITE poor management, crunch, & absurd deadlines from higher up - get fired This abuse of workers has to end, game devs gotta unionize globally

You're going to see more shit like this as capitalists get increasingly desperate in the face of declining rates of profits. None of our rights are sacred, all of them had to be fought for and won by ordinary workers like you and me.

If Hades is a game that made you feel seen and represented, it's because of the hard work of the people who contributed their talents. Now we have an opportunity to repay that. Please tell Supergiant that you support striking workers.