🌈 Trans fem, Non-binary 🏳️⚧️ Sparkly 💖 Sword Lesbian 🗡️ Fey/Fae/She/Kallai 🧚🏻♀️ Board Game Designer & Developer 🧩 Insta: Eye4Candi ; @byqueergames
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I am a freelance designer and developer of board games.
This 🧵 lists some of my projects, in no particular order.
🏳️⚧️💖 Alara 💖🏳️🌈 retweeted
Just like it’s bad form for a DM to turn the players into dialog-generating plot pawns in their scripted epic fantasy yarn, it’s also bad form for the players to turn the DM into a dispenser for personal cool and heroic moments and story and plot cues. It goes both ways.
Catching up on games, finally got through NeiR: Automata.. and Weight of the World sure hits hard when you're a trans femme living in these times... 🎶 I'm only one girl 🎶...
Anyway, the game is art. Everyone should play it.
🏳️⚧️💖 Alara 💖🏳️🌈 retweeted
As evidence, look at other game genres that don't have publisher gatekeepers. In my early surveys on Escape Rooms, almost half of escape room designers were women. In the Indie RPG industry, there's an incredible spread of ideas and diverse viewpoints.
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Part of broadening the industry has to mean broadening the sort of games we print. That seems obvious: why else would we broaden the industry? Why would we expect Jane Doe's game to look like a Reiner Knizia game? We already have Knizia games.
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Breaking: An unprecedented heat wave is striking Inuit territories in northern Canada. In some places record-breaking heat has melted all of the snowpack when it should still be 1-2 feet deep. The Inuit say they are "becoming collateral damage for unsustainable choices" 🧵
Thinking about this is always hard. I'm so so happy to have found myself, and as I discover who I am I am often struck by the three decades of time I lost.
That sense of lost time, and the grief that goes with it, will never go away. It's ok, I'm ok... and it's ok when it isn't.
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I aired a video today that calls out the lack of support for trans people during a time where our rights are being taken away at an alarming rate.
But most importantly, I'm asking for the board game community to do better and to uplift trans voices. youtube.com/watch?v=jTe2DQ-o…
🏳️⚧️💖 Alara 💖🏳️🌈 retweeted
it's 2023, and everyone has an opinion on trans people (mostly uninformed opinions)
so bbs, hatchlings, eggies: picking a name that will be "easy" for your cis friends and family to adapt to isn't going to help them accept you
they're going to love or hate you regardless
🏳️⚧️💖 Alara 💖🏳️🌈 retweeted
For Trans Day of Visibility, I’ve released almost all the queer and trans photos I’ve colorized/restored in one place! Check out some incredible moments from our community’s history going back to the 1890s at elierlick.com/color
(fashionably) late to this!
I'm a board game designer and developer, having designed games like Kingdom Rush: Rift in Time, and so many forthcoming things 👀
I'm slowly building Lavender Game Studio, which will publish queer games by queer folx
#thisiswhatagamedevlookslike
🏳️⚧️💖 Alara 💖🏳️🌈 retweeted
I’m working with experts at my job now and the wildest thing about the COVID research coming out is there’s not even a debate that of course it’s damaging to get this disease. It’s not like some ppl are finding “yeah ppl should be totally fine after getting it ten times”
Twitter won't let me send DMs unless I add a phone number, and I refuse to have personal info on this security risk of a hellsite.
So, if you want to reach me in private me on Insta or FB.
