Jo Summers

Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)

Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
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"It seems more pressing than ever to stand up to that type of fascist censorship that is eating digital culture."
#GameDev #IndieGame

STJV demonstrate outside the Paris offices of Take Two, holding flags, banners and flares.

Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.

“Say sorry, be nice is a Rockstar slogan, it has been for many, many years. At least in this instance, it doesn’t seem like the company is interested in living by it.”

Watch the video of our demonstration & interviews with dismissed workers at Rockstar North here!

Rockstar: tries to bust unions🦹‍♀️

Us: Hold my controller 🎮🔥🔥

We're fighting back 💥💥
IWGB organized a protest in front of the @rockstargames.com parent company Take-Two Interactive in London today

We'll make sure the credits are rolling on their corporate greed ❌️

@gameworkers.co.uk

This is the most ruthless act of union busting in the history of the UK games industry. Yesterday, @rockstargames.com unfairly fired over 30 employees for union activity.

We won't back down, and we're not scared - we will fight for every member to be reinstated.

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Open Letter to the Executive Leadership at Build A Rocket Boy

We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌

Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social

Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

If you like board games, consider supporting Drafts Workers with their strike fund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/draughts-g...

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

3 years later... they won Call of Duty Workers Win 3-Year Battle For Microsoft Union Contract, Worker Goes On The Record For The First Time

Inspiring story and a hell of a lot of work from Call of Duty QA: shannonliao.substack.com/p/3-years-la...

Open Letter Relating to the UK Video Games Council - full version on our website https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/open-letter-regarding-the-uk-video-games-council/

We are incredibly disappointed by the Labour government's decision to seek advice from such a narrow segment of our industry. You can find our open letter here: www.gameworkers.co.uk/open-letter-...

Over 100 developers at risk of redundancy. It's time for every game dev to have job security and good working conditions.

If you work in the UK games industry, join our union here:
iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

Protections against arbitrary dismissals, a policy around AI and credits for QA workers? 😍

Every game dev deserves a union! Congratulations to @codecwa.bsky.social for achieving union recognition with ZeniMax. 🙌

If you work in the UK games industry, join our union at: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

🚨 TICKETS ARE LIVE! 🚨

How do we kick the fash out of gaming? Join devs, players & organisers (and @chrisbratt.bsky.social!) July 11–12 at Pelican House , London to find out.

Tickets on sale now → buytickets.at/gamestransfo...

#SmashTheFash #GamesTransformedFestival

"We’ve been here and will continue to exist" by sandplatypus A Downpour game by sandplatypus

delighted to see this pop up on Downpour: downpour.games/~sandplatypu...

YouTube video by fakefrogsonly Mod Jam #01 - DADA DOOM

Helped make a horrible Doom mod on Saturday at the "Dada Doom!" Mod Jam in London, with a bunch of other very lovely folks:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz1T...

Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Donate to @goodlawproject.bsky.social and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

Any indie games studio folks, or product managers familiar with publishing platforms willing to have a chat with me before a job interview tomorrow? 💜

This has got rather out of hand already.

FKFJ website should be up within a week or so.

If you're interested in running an affiliated event, DM me, or drop me an email to get listed: jonty@jonty.co.uk

WEBFISHING on Steam WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

I will be taking all future meetings from webfishing. thx for your time.

store.steampowered.com/app/3146520/...

oh and I just checked out your work - PixelPop looks rad!

Heyyy! Thanks for thinking of me : )

This year is going to be smaller, with no exhibition and a 2 day conference instead (boo state of arts funding) but it would be great to see you : )

LMK if you fancy a coffee or anything

On Saturday, as world leaders gathered for the UN’s annual climate negotiations at COP29, we took to the streets as part of a worldwide call to demand climate justice.
There is no more time to delay our transition away from fossil fuels. It must happen now.

From FlashBrighton? : )

took me a while to get set up!

That's me!