Talk:IGDA

Info Dump for IGDA http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sil77l + "Error I had in my TwitLonger: Adams wasn't the founder of the CGDC, he was just a director." --SoggyKnees (talk) 08:04, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

Info dumping for later about IGDA founder Ernest W. Adam's declarations about Gamergate https://archive.today/1IVcS https://archive.today/zN6Uu https://archive.today/gY3uc https://archive.today/CZRwb

Putting this link here instead of the main page. http://tinysubversions.com/2013/09/some-thoughts-on-the-igda-or-why-i-quit/

Ratalada (talk) 23:14, 29 December 2014 (UTC)

Dump of stuff
IGDA and ggautoblocker

Endorsed ggautoblocker, a terribly coded Twitter blocklist that blocked one of their own representatives, Robert Rosario, among thousands of unrelated people.

https://archive.today/hdmqF

https://archive.today/qitc8

http://markdownshare.com/view/6ce8fd6e-b93e-4355-91f5-660dd127dd06

Despite claiming ggautoblocker was a third-party tool, an IGDA internal board called Women In Games Special Interest Group (WIG SIG) was involved in its coding.

https://archive.today/hdmqF#selection-2333.0-2339.1

https://archive.today/93P5w

http://archive.today/lRQla#selection-1849.0-1866.0

https://archive.today/fTUfE

http://imgur.com/NvvllCQ

After much public outcry, they removed their link to ggautoblocker altogether.

https://archive.today/GdAbv

IGDA itself was targeting Gamergate despite claiming to represent all developers.

https://archive.today/b1q8R

The creator of ggautoblocker has a history of harassment on Twitter, and openly tells her Twitter followers to blacklist people for their opinions, and they follow up with harassment.

https://archive.today/A1Azz

https://archive.today/AUZ2O

http://imgur.com/YDPlBcS

https://archive.today/486Hp

https://archive.today/w6AEC

https://archive.today/hpBq1

People of IGDA

Now for a couple of the specific people mentioned as advisors in the harassment resource that initially included ggautoblocker.

https://archive.today/hdmqF#selection-2793.0-2793.8

Tristin Edwards, who is also one of IGDA's two main staff members and former member of the steering committee of the WIG SIG group which helped create ggautoblocker, has openly targeted Gamergate as a whole, as well as spouted supported misandrist positions. She has since deleted every single tweet she made.

https://archive.today/YmYVJ

https://archive.today/k3an8

https://archive.today/89FWi

https://archive.today/42JWD

Elsa Henry has also made spurious accusations against Adam Baldwin of abusing women, and has shown support for misandry.

https://archive.today/bwPg2

https://archive.today/WRYHu

Now let's look at someone from IGDA's board of directors.

https://archive.today/2PZra

Luke Dicken has just plain attacked gamers as a whole. "Anti-gamer" is not an euphemism when referring to him, and yet he's in the board of directors of a game developer association.

https://archive.today/MRuTH

https://archive.today/NPc2X

Perhaps the worst offender of all, however, is IGDA's own founder.

https://archive.today/pel4K

Ernest W. Adams, despite talking about representing all devs and standing against censorship at the same time he threatens to blacklist dissenting developers and justifies private censorship.

https://archive.today/OM5aw

https://archive.today/xh9Rp

https://archive.today/gV4dL

So that's the IGDA in a nutshell. Claiming to support equality and diversity in gaming development while calling for blacklisting, promoting bigotry, shunning debate, excusing censorship and playing favorites.

http://archive.today/m5Ice

https://archive.today/CFKSA

http://imgur.com/a/BEO12

- CrazedMan (talk) 07:59, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Exposed: the International Game Developers Association (IGDA)

In this series of articles, I'm going to expose certain illicit aspects of the SJW side of the games industry, focusing for now on the IGDA. I will go over the anti-male, anti-gamer attitudes of the IGDA's leadership; the use of the IGDA as a vessel to promote its "social justice" ideology and intimidate developers into adhering to it; the dubious managerial practices of the Board of Directors itself; and much, much more.

If you want to see how far the problem goes, ask yourself these questions.

1. Do you want gamers to be "shipped to their own island away from civilization" (presumably in the metaphorical sense), like IGDA Board of Directors member Luke Dicken does? https://archive.today/MRuTH

2. Do you think it's fine if developers like him say that the term "gamer" describes "the worst scum of the internet"? https://archive.today/NPc2X

3. Do you want the IGDA, which supposedly represents all developer demographics, to have a feminist Operations Manager (Tristin Hightower) who encourages people to buy T-shirts that say "misandry"? Is this someone who is willing to act in the interests of all the male rank-and-file members of the institution? https://archive.today/89FWi https://archive.today/42JWD

4. What do you think of someone like Cat Wendt, co-chair of IGDA Women in Games , who reblogs "The mental illness we refuse to name: White Male Entitlement" on Tumblr? Do you think someone with this sort of attitude should decide on the inclusivity policies of a major organization like the IGDA? Is this how things should be in the industry? https://archive.today/t3819

5. What do you think of people who contemplate the idea of making an industry blacklist of "unbelievers", like Sheri Rubin of the IGDA Board of Directors has done? Would people like her strive to make reasonable policy decisions for the benefit of all developers, or would they blacklist the "unbelievers"? https://archive.today/VFM39 https://archive.today/JVylg

6. How would you feel if lifetime members of the IGDA like Laralyn McWilliams, after threatening to have you blacklisted in the industry, tweeted about how much fun they had targeting you because "it's great to see en masse spontaneous ridicule like this"? Do you believe the IGDA should continue to welcome people like McWilliams into its fold? https://archive.today/14qCa

7. Do you like the idea of being hounded by 'progressive' developers and "discussed at the highest levels of the game industry", but not in a good way, by people like Brenda Romero, for doubting the idea that women who work in video games are oppressed? https://archive.today/SlBGN

8. How do you think the Chair Emeritus of the IGDA should act if he sees you being taunted by these developers? Should he tell these developers to be civil and try to tone down the internet argument, or should he tell you, like Dustin Clingman actually told the indie developer Russ Roegner one time, that "the responses you got are not from your peers but from thought leaders in the industry" and that you should watch an ideological video to better understand these responses? https://archive.today/dCJOH

Original source: http://redd.it/2om3lv

- CrazedMan (talk) 18:02, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

https://i.imgur.com/DjIFWC5.jpg

- CrazedMan (talk) 11:24, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

http://pastebin.com/LAmZNVKn

http://pastebin.com/RhmR3aij

- CrazedMan (talk) 05:58, 11 March 2015 (UTC)



- CrazedMan (talk) 15:56, 4 May 2015 (UTC)