??? Today! Need a mental break from the GDC? Come outside and make some art! Join Take This Accelerate Fellows Roshelle P. ??GDC and?Jamy Drapeza, LICSW, LMSW for a free therapeutic art activity station near the MLK Memorial in Yerba Buena Park on Wednesday, March 19 from 11a - 1p. Attendees are encouraged to decorate a zine page with art and share messages of hope, grief, and joy to fellow game developers and the industry. Pages will be digitized into a virtual zine to share with our greater game dev community. FREE CANDY (until we run out!) ======== Roshelle (she/her) is a games UX researcher, writer, and death doula exploring grief through games, storytelling within solarpunk/speculative fiction, and educating players about environmental justice through climate games. @https://lnkd.in/eTpUY9Qw?@playfullymortal (IG) Jamy?(they/she) is a licensed therapist that specializes in wellness-centered team building and psychotherapy on life transitions, anxiety, and depression. @thegaysiantherapist
Take This, Inc.
心理健康保健
Kirkland，WA 2,749 位关注者
Decreasing stigma and increasing support for mental health among game makers and players.
关于我们
Our mission is to decrease the stigma, and increase the support for, mental health in the game enthusiast community and inside the game industry. Our Vision is a game community that welcomes and supports people experiencing mental health challenges, and that recognizes the humanity and mental health of game creators. The foundation of all of our work is the principle that hope is healing in the journey to mental wellness. Furthermore, - We normalize mental health challenges and recognize and honor intersectional experiences - We approach change and mental wellness broadly, from empowering individuals to enacting systemic change focused on leadership and cultural norms and practices - We foster healthy, inclusive community by focusing on collaboration and partnership - We take an evidence-based approach to our mental health content and programming We are a mental health advocacy organization with a focus on the game industry and community. We provide resources, training, and support individuals and companies that help the gaming community improve its mental well-being and resilience. We address the underlying conditions that can create and perpetuate mental health challenges: stigma, harmful studio culture, harassment and toxicity, lack of diversity and accessibility, and problematic game and community design. Specifically, this means that we: - Produce content that is intersectional and created by diverse voices - Foster safe, mental health-affirming, inclusionary, and harassment-free communities and industry environments - Promote inclusive and thoughtful game design practices
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https://www.takethis.org
Take This, Inc.的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 心理健康保健
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- 2-10 人
- 总部
- Kirkland，WA
- 类型
- 非营利机构
- 创立
- 2012
- 领域
- Video Games、Mental Health and Video Games、Mental Health Advocacy、Education and Training、Video Games and Youth、Online Safety、Trust and Safety、Organizational Culture、DEI和Professional Development
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US，WA，Kirkland，98034
Take This, Inc.员工
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Accelerate fellow Percival is documenting his top 3 GDC talks of the day!
We're off to an exciting first day of the GDC! Today, a few of my favorite summits were happening simultaneously (UX! Narrative! Tabletop! Indie Games! Thriving in Games Group!) Which meant today was a great chance to see many a talk. Of the the ones I attended a few stood out to me for their quality, insight, and fun. I definitely finding them later on the GDC vault for folks who couldn’t make it: 1. Deep Yet Approachable: Designing the Combat Wheel in ‘Dragon Age The Veilguard’? from Bruno Porrio The talk covered the process of creating the wheel with all the hypotheses, wireframes, and big changes along the way. Seeing the detailed visual evolution of a UX system is always enjoyable and I particularly liked the chance to see wireframes and gameplay footage in different fidelities as the idea for the wheel became more streamlined and the system improved. 2. Writing ‘Tactical Breach Wizards’: How to String Out a Joke for 15 hours with from Tom Francis This talk was equal parts funny and insightful. The primary focus was on how to get the most out of a core comedic conceit but delved into a number of interconnected areas of design and comedy, highlighting how the efficiency of language, sincere character introspection, and even the way text appears on screen as tools to heighten the comedic tone of a game. 3. Designing to Scale: Optimizing Game UX for Cross-Platform Audiences from Jonathan Bieda This talk went into a number of key strategies for making a game work across platforms and talked about the process for how ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate’ was designed with the intention of being playable on everything from mobile to ultra widescreen PCs. The talk covered design strategies for templatizing screens to prevent lots of iteration work down the line, talked about the kinds of iconography that are readable across screen sizes, and went into detail on both the layout flow planning and how to shape the visual identity to suit its cross-platform medium. As someone who’s worked on cross-platform games in the past, I found that this talk did a fantastic job of identifying issues and workarounds in the space.?
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We could not be prouder of Accelerate fellows Roshelle P. ??GDC and Jamy Drapeza, LICSW, LMSW for pulling this event together. If you're at GDC, mark your calendars for ??? Wednesday from 11AM - 1PM for some therapeutic art in the park. Help make a zine and share stories of hope, grief, and joy about - and for - the game dev community. #GDCScholarImpact
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?? Please join us in welcoming Kimberly Packett to Take This! Kim is our new Philanthropy and Partnership Officer and we are so excited to have her leading our fundraising, partnership, and philanthropy efforts. You can learn more about Kim here: https://lnkd.in/eyueXcre
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Volunteer applications are open until the end of March. If you'd like to volunteer with Take This at either PAX East in Boston or MomoCon in Atlanta, you can sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gkPFdamw
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?? Only 2 weeks until #GDC! We're excited to be bringing our inaugural Accelerate class of fellows to San Francisco for the event. This amazing opportunity was made possible by GDC's #GDCScholarImpact , I Need Diverse Games, and Sony Entertainment - thank you!! As always, our deepest gratitude to Riot Games for their title sponsorship of the Accelerate Program. https://lnkd.in/eCxz2Btt
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? Tomorrow (Feb 23) is the last day to submit your application. We're hiring a Digital Media Specialist! We all know it’s dangerous to go alone. Take This is looking for someone to help us bring hope, connection, and mental health to game players, creators, and studios. If you have the passion and skills to boost mental health advocacy and support work in the gaming space, consider applying for the Digital Media Specialist position with us! https://lnkd.in/dpjTrh-B
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We’re Hiring a Digital Content Specialist! We all know it’s dangerous to go alone. Take This is looking for someone to help us bring hope, connection, and mental health to game players, creators, and studios. If you have the passion and skills to boost mental health advocacy and support work in the gaming space, consider applying for the Digital Content Specialist position with us! https://lnkd.in/dpjTrh-B
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Solo But Not Alone is back for it's 5th year of TTRPG fundraising! This year's bundle features over 100 single-player TTRPGs, over $400 worth of games for only $10. Proceeds from this event benefit Take This. Available here: https://lnkd.in/eMFmiPnw
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