Diversity Scholarship Brought to You By I Need Diverse Games

For the fourth year in a row we are incredibly pleased to announce a partnership with the phenomenal organization “I Need Diverse Games” to help cover the costs of diverse applicants in their attempts to make it to Vector ’19! This scholarship helps cover ticket admission costs for any participants who would like to come (lunch is provided as well through the ticket price) and we hope that this eases a pathway for anyone who is on the fence on attendance.

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From their website:

I Need Diverse Games via all associated platforms and members; including but not limited to: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and other mediums seeks to bring projects, works and research by marginalized folks to light. We also seek to discuss, analyse, and critique identity and culture in video games through a multi-faceted lens rooted in intersectionality.

We are very excited to once again be working with an organization that seeks to promote underserved and marginalized voices in the game industry. If you’re a person who feels that they identity under that banner (be it through sexual orientation, gender, skin color, etc) please contact us. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in coming to Vector 2019 and doesn’t yet have a ticket please let us know at vector (at) runjumpdev.org.

If you do not currently have a ticket for Vector 2019 and would like to purchase one, you can do so here.

Sponsorship Announcement: I Need Diverse Games

We are super excited to announce returning event sponsor I Need Diverse Games! With their help, we’ll be offering a diversity scholarship for our 2-Day badges. We’re excited to sponsor diverse individuals in the community and to bring their voices to the conference.

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Their info:

We are dedicated to helping those that want to bring more diversity to the art of gaming. We will do this by sponsoring attendance at diverse gaming conventions, promoting those that are making diverse games, indie projects and presenting on the topics of diversity in gaming at conventions. One of our goals is to have more articles, to pay people for their contributions, and to do more tangible things for the community.

We also want to help others get to conventions, share their work if funding is an issue. We would love your support to send aspiring game devs to conventions like GDC, IGDA events in their city, GeekGirlCon, HavenCon, GaymerX, and other places where gaming and diversity are parts of the conversation. We want to do this by highlighting work by marginalized, underrepresented people in the industry, getting their voices heard and their work seen be it a game, articles, etc.

Find out more about I Need Diverse Games at their website or follow them on Twitter!

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Haven’t grabbed your ticket yet? Go ahead and grab your ticket at our EventBrite here. If you want to apply for one of the diversity scholarships, just email us at vector@runjumpdev.org, or contact us through the contact form at the bottom of the page.

Sponsor Announcement – ChoreMonster

We here at Vector are super pleased to present our newest Bronze level sponsor – the folks at ChoreMonster!

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ChoreMonster is a suite of web and mobile apps that aims to make chores fun for parents and kids. Kids can earn points by completing chores that they can turn in for real life rewards like ice cream, an hour of Xbox, or even a canoe trip. Parents can enjoy a simple, hassle-free, digital system that takes the tension out of family chores.

We’re incredibly excited to have ChroreMonster join us for this event, and we look forward to hearing more about their company!

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Tickets are currently on sale for the upcoming Vector conference, and we have  a pretty amazing line-up of guest speakers and workshops this year. If you or your company is interested in becoming a sponsor of Vector, please contact us.

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