Cidney Hamilton @cidney@mastodon.gamedev.place

Since I haven't done a round of #introductions lately:

Hi! I'm Cidney. I used to be a web developer, then I decided that #gamedev was more fun and more ethical. I primarily work with Unity these days, but in my past lives I did interactive fiction.

Right now I work for Corey and Lori Cole, the creators of Quest for Glory. During the project I was diagnosed with #EDS and suffered a spinal cord injury after a car accident. I can walk again, so it's an invisible #disability.

GamaSutra published a #postmortem I wrote about the 5-year development process for Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption. It's been a long and tiring journey. :)

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RobertaVaughan/20190404/340065/HeroU_Rogue_to_Redemption_Postmortem.php

Alec Holowka's sister, on abuse and justice.

https://medium.com/@eileenholowka/for-alec-thoughts-on-transformative-justice-3e2a264dd891

16 rooms finished, 84 rooms left for #NaMuBuMo. This is turning into a fun challenge.

Demo for Summer Daze at Hero-U is ready! Check it out on itch.io (coming soon to GoG and Steam).

https://transolar-games.itch.io/summer-daze

#summerdaze #showoffhour #visualnovel #gamedev

Anyone else here doing National MUD Building Month in October?

https://namubumo.com/

It's not the responsibility of abuse victims to prevent hypothetical future abuse.

Let's move on, please.

Allowing the player to explore outside the castle at Hero-U. #summerdaze #gamedev

The thing is that playing games with narratives around trauma (sexual or otherwise) can be really powerful tools for processing said trauma and feeling less alone.

And if creators with lived experience with trauma are silenced because the media focuses on them as victims rather than creators, or treats it like a courtroom drama, we're not going to have those games, because it just isn't safe to even implicitly disclose.

The problem is that if I say I'm a survivor, they might out me without consent, and if I don't, I won't have credibility.

I've been debating reaching out to Vice to say that the way that they're covering "gamedev's #MeToo" movement is actually really shitty.

Bad Reactions to Other People’s Sexual Assaults

1. Blame them for what happened.
2. Be judgmental.
3. Press for details they don’t want to give.
4. Repeat their story (including retweeting) without consent.
5. Badmouth the perpetrator without consent.

Good Reactions to Other People’s Sexual Assaults:

1. Be empathetic and kind.
2. Offer to help (ride to doctor, crash space).
3. Refer them to crisis resources (RAINN in the US).
4. If you're a mandated reporter, disclose this ASAP.

Still love this instance, but I miss the local timeline being uncluttered enough that I could have random technical conversations with strangers.

Overheard on Discord: "The only conclusion I'm willing to draw from the entire mess is 'Twitter cannot be trusted with anything important.'"

So far: met Al Lowe, hung out at the waterfront, got stuffed animals from fans, and worked on stuff for the new platformer.

Flight got delayed a few days because of Hurricane Dorian, so I'm still in Seattle after #PAXWest.