Keynote: How WINGS' Self-Publishing Model Creates a More Diverse Games Industry
summary
WINGS funds women and gender‑marginalized devs to self-publish rather than sign with a publisher, provides platform introductions, keeps developers on publisher emails, and applies industry‑scale budgets (every funded project this year is >US$150k, the largest just over US$500k). Terms are public: a 30% share with staged recoup tiers, plus negotiation and choice of partners. The talk names practical pitfalls of public diversity grants, unpaid mentorship, and childcare/networking barriers.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Keynote welcome
- 2:58First public talk
- 4:00Societal biases in games
- 11:48Diversity funding problems
- 15:16Women's labor undervaluation
- 19:05Mentorship limitations
- 21:52WINGS for-profit fund
- 23:36Self-publishing vs traditional
- 25:22Funding transparency
- 31:21Q&A on funding models
- 38:03Closing remarks
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