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Oh awesome! You should check out https://www.indigenousgamedevs.com/

Hi! Ya sure!

How do you see Native American voices and sovereignty being applied in your games?
It's tricky to pull any one thing out of my work and say "that!" specifically because my work is an expression of my worldview as an Indigenous person. One of the things I think is hugely different between Indigenous people and settlers is their view on what "post-apocalypse" looks like. When I started working on this game I was actually thinking about what would the world look like after cars are gone. Like eventually it's going to happen, but does it have to be a grim-dark future where everything is bad? So I started building what a city of the future could look like and because cars were out of the picture I had to think about what that means in terms of how a city is set up and what kind of things we wouldn't have anymore. That led me to think about what kind of things we could have instead! Like most people don't know that all the plants native to Turtle Island are either food, medicine, our food's food or material (for clothes, buildings, furniture, toys, etc). That means there's a lot of things we could plant on every corner and rooftop that would replace a lot of things that would go into corner stores. That's probably a really long way of saying "it's in everything." lol

How have your games impacted other Native Americans?

I don't know about impact, but I do know from the conversations I've had with other N8Vs (especially about Hill Agency: PURITYdecay) is that they love how the worlds I build feel to them. A lot of stuff that looks "native" doesn't really feel that way to Indigenous people. My big hope is that more Indigenous people start making their own worlds in games so I can play them!

Oh noooo! My computer with all the source files died a while ago and I was never able to make an HTML5 version like I wanted.
Let me know what you did (if you get it to work) so I can post it for others.

Oh thank you!!

Tansi Rosalique_TTV!! Can you connect with me on LinkedIn? We can chat there.

kitatamihin! Thank you ^_^

Well, that four years of hell I went through was finally good for something!

You can click on the Kickstarter to follow and you should be able to get updates.

Company: Achimostawinan Games
Location: Toronto, Canada or Remote
Start: Late July/Early August
Type: Full-Time Contract 6 months (with potential for extension)
Contract: $20,000 CAD
Benefits: No

Achimostawinan Games is looking for a 2D Animator who has a working knowledge of 3D animation and rigging. You will be working under the guidance of the Artistic Director and will be responsible for 2D character/asset creation and animation for Hill Agency.

Responsibilities
Collaborate with the Artistic Director and Team Leads to draw and animate characters and props for use in game engine
 Maintain a high level of quality and productivity while hitting deadlines and collaborating with team members on a daily basis
Qualification
 A degree or diploma in 2D or 3D animation, or equivalent professional experience
 Experience in creating 2D or 3D animation for use in games
 An understanding of/or experience working in and implementing assets in Unity or Unreal Engine
 Knowledge and use of 3D or 2D animation software - Maya or Spine - as it relates to character animation is a plus
 Prop and environment modeling or character rigging experience is a plus
If Interested
Please use Hill Agency 2D/3D Animator Position as the subject line and send to <AchimostawinanGames (at) gmail.com>:
 Demo reel (must show character animation)
 Link to your portfolio
 Resume in PDF format
Successful applicants will be required to do a drawing test before reaching the interview stage.
Please note: any portfolios/reels that show porn will be rejected.

About Achimostawinan Games
Achimostawinan means “tell us a story” in Cree and that’s just what we intend to do at Achimostawinan Games! We are an Indigenously owned and operated startup video game company located in Hamilton, ON with a co-working space at the Toronto Media Arts Centre in Toronto. Our mandate is to tell original Indigenous stories by Indigenous creators. Learn more about our project and company here at achimogames.ca

Thank you!

Nice! Hope he can find the arcade. It's a little hidden at the TIFF Lightbox.

Please let us know about any problems you run into and we will try our best to deal with them as quickly as possible.

12/04/2017 - Added Mac build

13/04/2017 - Added custom cursor to Windows and Mac build

I totally understand. But newbie or no you have something really high quality here.

What might work for you is if you set it at a higher price point and then have a "Just Published" sale where it's at $20.

Sorry if I'm bugging you, I'm just really passionate about artists getting paid what they're worth. I will totally drop it now. Lol

This game is amazingly written, I think you should charge at least $35. I know I would pay at least that much. Esspecially because I want to see more games from you!