Trinidad Black

It’s jam season again at the Game Kitchen!
Join us for the 2nd annual BiG Byte Game Jam 2025, in collaboration with @blackingaming.bsky.social! A 4-week jam featuring a culture-focused theme, Okra Stew, and a $700+ prize!
Starting on June 1st!
Sign Up Here: itch.io/jam/big-byte...

Ahoy, mates! We're thrilled to be steering the ship for this week's official #TurnBasedThursday thread! 🎮

#Indiedevs, hoist your #Turnbased games into this thread and don’t forget to mark ’em with the event hashtag.

Players, set sail by commenting, liking, and reposting your treasured favorites

Without fail, we always have a good time when our LA Black game dev community links up.

Great vibes at our 1st "Blerd Brews" event of the year!

Here's some of the games we played during the event:
- Five Mics, the hip hop Trading Card Game
- SayLess
- Trading Races
- "Do You Claim Them"

Finished editing my first game trailer. Who wants to see the full teaser? 🤩 #indie #gamedev #spider

Hey y'all,

I updated the Black Game Developers Starter Pack for 2025. Come in and see if there are new devs for you to follow! #Blackgamedev

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💕💕💕💕💕 I might be calling you 😭💕😭💕😭💕😭

A pile of Covid tests, masks, ibuprofen, lozenges, emergency-C, and salonpas. There is also a pile of stickers that say Game Workers Unite

Hello #GDC25 friends! There’s a lot of folks around and at least some of y’all are diseased, so if anyone needs spare masks, tests, lozenges, ibuprofen, vitamin C or stickers, hit me up! Stay safe and healthy this week! ✨

BIG Fest Tuesday lineup looking fineee

Catch us this Tuesday at the Children’s Museum for BIG Fest!! #GDC

RSVP to Black Fest @GDC | Partiful BLACK FEST 2025 IS HERE 🚀 A16z Cultural Leadership Fund, BCGA, Gameheads & Black in Gaming are bringing Black Fest to GDC 2025. Black Fest is more than an event—it’s a movement. A full day of progra...

Don’t forget to register here! partiful.com/e/FyA3qUJIAE...

This is shaping up to be an exciting season for us at the collective. Gotta keep pushin'

I prayed and asked God what’s my word for the Month and I heard CONSISTENCY 🔥

Hey all! A reminder that today is the last day to submit for the BViG Showcase! Looking forward to seeing what you all have to show us!

So if you or anyone you know is looking for someone with the following, hit me up.

- 10 years in program management & DEIA work
- 13 years in research
- 6 years in talent acquisition (sourcing, full-cycle, strategy)
- 6 years in data/people analytics (database building, talent & market mapping)

What’s one thing you’re committing to being consistent in this month? Drop it below! ⬇️

#ConsistencyIsKey #FaithInAction #StayTheCourse #GrowthMindset #Proverbs163 #KeepBuilding

Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed. — Proverbs 16:3

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Success isn’t about how you feel—it’s about what you do daily. Stay the course, keep building, and watch the results come!

I prayed and asked God what’s my word for the Month and I heard CONSISTENCY 🔥

YouTube video by Now is the Time Podcast Now is the Time Podcast: S1E5 (Time to Embrace your Whole Self)

Today is your time to embrace your whole self: youtu.be/avRsFJEfi-Q

🌟OTHER COOL PEOPLE YOU SHOULD FOLLOW AT MAGFEST!🌟

@callmeacelegit.bsky.social, @chasebethea.bsky.social, @latoyap.bsky.social, @theblackblackmage.bsky.social, @thisistrini.bsky.social, @veronicatchristie.bsky.social, @anitithe.bsky.social

YouTube video by Now is the Time Podcast Now is the Time Podcast: S1E5 (Time to Embrace your Whole Self)

Today is your time to embrace your whole self: youtu.be/avRsFJEfi-Q

New Day, New Mercies 💕

What I would say to my younger self: You got this, don’t let people tell you, your ideas are not enough… keep going and build..

Please be kind to those around you. You never know what someone is going through.

Sending love and light to my homies ✨💕🙏🏾

Good morning, Black people.

I hope your skin is extra moisturized and your water is extra refreshing. And the work day flies by

Finally learned how to use #UnrealEngine ‘s biome features on a custom landscape 😮‍💨. And that:
- multilayering saves time by making randomness controllable
- it’s super easy to switch out assets to prototype visuals
- much more performant than expected

Some unoptimized in-game footage:

Welcome to the Black in Gaming 2025 Awards Season! We’re thrilled to invite you to submit nominations for this year’s prestigious awards, which will be held near the annual Game Developer Conference in San Francisco from March 17-21, 2025. If you’ll b...

The Black In Gaming awards are coming up at GDC in March 2025. Have you taken time to nominate? If not, here’s the link. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This just made my day!

Four images of a life size Hello Kitty in an office having a difficult time with work life. In the top left image, Hello Kitty is pointing a gun at a computer screen while wearing blue headphones. The top right corner shows Hello Kitty swinging a mallet in an office and breaking furniture. The bottom left image has Hello Kitty waving a shovel threateningly. Finally, the bottom right image is Hello Kitty pouring a liquid onto a computer. It is not clear if it is water or gasoline.

The Games Industry, a 2024 year in review 😊