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As part of Friendship Garden Game Developers’ mission to empower underrepresented voices in game design, we aim to collect various resources for the community. From scholarships to openings to useful articles, check back here to connect to new and useful information.
Palestine Will Be Free
Friendship Garden Game Developers stands with the people of Palestine struggling against a settler colonial occupying force
GDC 2021 Scholarship
Application deadline: Monday, May 17th 11:59 PM PST. In accordance with our mission to empower game developers from backgrounds of historic marginalization, Friendship Garden Game Developers will award five Game Developers Conference "Core + Summit" level passes to...
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Past Events
Recipients of our GDC 2021 Friendship Garden Scholarship
We're happy to announce our GDC scholarship recipients for 2021:Andrea Estefania Elias Cobar (she/her) Hi my name is Andrea, I’m a computer science student from Guatemala, hoping to be in a close future an awesome game developer. I describe my self as, hard working,...
Digital GDC 2021 Booth
March 15 - 19, 2021 Booth open March 8 - 26, 2021 As we continue to find ways to gather and play during the COVID-19 pandemic, GDC has given us a booth at the now-virtual GDC2021. From March 08 - 26, stop by on the GDC Swapcard app to see games made by folks from...
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[Workshop] Creating Inclusive Characters
Gameloft Montreal, a leading game developer and publisher established as one of the top innovators in its field since 2000, is proud to introduce a new series of talks about diversity and inclusivity in partnership with Pixelles. Several experts will look at various...
September Healing Summit
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the continued string of unconscionable crimes against people of color during the Summer of 2020, Friendship Garden is created a space focused on Play, Healing, and Intersectionality. Over 60 developers, community organizers,...
GDC 2020 Scholarship
Friendship Garden Game Developers is excited to give away 5 “Core + Summit” level passes for GDC 2020, to be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from March 16-20, 2020. These passes are to be provided to transgender individuals, nonbinary folx,...
Friendship Garden @ The MADE
On Friday, September 27th, at The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, Friendship Garden hosted an exhibition showcasing the works of developers often underrepresented in the video games industry. From 6-11PM, over fifty community members came out to enjoy seven...
Gwen’s Girls Benefit Concert
In November, we were asked to curate and run a gaming lounge space at a benefit concert for Gwen’s Girls, a Pittsburgh nonprofit organization that runs after-school activities for young women of color. They were excited to have Sammus as the headlining act and wanted...
PlayNYC Megabooth
Friendship Garden’s Inaugural event! We purchased a booth on the main show floor of PlayNYC to showcase the efforts of some phenomenal game developers that were not able afford the incredibly steep cost of having a presence at the show. After receiving numerous...