http://www.elizabethsampat.com/games daily 0.75 2018-01-04 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/my-games daily 0.75 2020-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875395-KHGJUIAV52G5T03Z01F8/blowback.jpg Games - Blowback A tabletop RPG about spies and the people who love them. 2010 Indie Game award nominee: Indie Game Of The Year, Best Production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1515090551014-69LK96AHJNHABS2AYKR0/DAfgss.png Games - Am I Part of the Problem? An interactive tool to craft meaningful apologies and make appropriate amends. Played over 10,000 times its first week live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875497-GTFBNFNU6AMB3HKQ1A9U/deadbolt.jpg Games - Deadbolt Part game, part performance: a bespoke game about being your most honest, vulnerable self with friends and strangers. A 2013 Indiecade Award nominee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1515090551502-ZWBTYB7V5E3JB5P9ISO3/qkIQaG.png Games - 8 Vignettes From The Tech Industry An interactive essay in counterpoint to the infamous "Google Memo." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875551-VIZG1T18IUYY71L607ON/htbh.jpg Games - How to be Happy A physics-based dating simulator, made in partnership with Loren Hernandez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875952-ICI8K5DZFU466KXFIGFT/nineteen.jpg Games - nineteen My experience surviving terminal depression. TW: ideation, methodology. http://www.elizabethsampat.com/thats-not-a-game daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/new-page daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/designed-experiences-mediums-and-genres daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/giving-thanks-for-gishwhes daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/the-novelty-of-community daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/the-truth-about-zoe-quinn daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/im-a-woman-in-games daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/quit-fucking-going-to-pax-already-what-is-wrong-with-you daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/in-defense-of-women-in-games-initiatives daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/sex-lies-and-game-development daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452065970966-QN5QD8HURT8QOM1UMNXZ/image-asset.jpeg Contact http://www.elizabethsampat.com/a-brief-history-of-what-happens-when-you-die daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/the-season-of-asking daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/gamers-like-us daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/why-i-like-batman daily 0.75 2016-01-06 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/books daily 0.75 2020-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1515089106020-9ORKKDQVHS9O59K19F3Z/image-asset.jpeg Books - Empathy Engines: Design Games That Are Personal, Political, And Profound Games are about connection: use them to connect to something worthwhile. In this guide, Elizabeth Sampat takes designers through a process of reaching through themselves to reach out to others. Drawing on influences as varied as history, politics, psychology and theater, Empathy Engines sketches a complex network of interaction and community, and shows that system design is at its beating heart. With thorough breakdowns of a multitude of games (blockbuster and indie) and thought-provoking exercises at the end of each chapter, EMPATHY ENGINES will make any game designer think more closely about how to wield systems with intention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1515089391370-RZSFOCTAWAK8EQED15C3/9781138947924.jpg Books - Women in Game Development: Breaking the Glass Level-Cap Videogame development is usually seen as a male dominated field; even playing videogames is often wrongly viewed as a pastime for men only. But behind the curtain, women have always played myriad important roles in gaming. From programmers to artists, designers to producers, female videogame developers endure not only the pressures of their jobs but also epic levels of harassment and hostility. Jennifer Brandes Hepler’s Women in Game Development: Breaking the Glass Level-Cap gives voice to talented and experienced female game developers from a variety of backgrounds, letting them share the passion that drives them to keep making games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595874703474-VC15HI77DH32T2O1MI6I/image-asset.jpeg Books - The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games. Speaking with insight and candor about their creative practices as well as their politics and passions, these influential and innovative game makers tell stories about their lives and inspirations, the challenges they face, and the ways they understand their places within the wider terrain of video game culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595841915858-AH4YI5YU9QIULEYYVADR/books-crop.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452071765304-I5QFRN9ILCIPSG0TUFZI/image-asset.jpeg Books - Videogames for Humans Behind the fluorescent veil of modern big-business video games, a quiet revolution is happening, and it’s centered on a tool called Twine. Taken up by nontraditional game authors to describe distinctly nontraditional subjects—from struggles with depression, explorations of queer identity, and analyses of the world of modern sex and dating to visions of breeding crustacean horses in a dystopian future—the Twine movement to date has created space for those who have previously been voiceless within games culture to tell their own stories, as well as to invent new visions outside of traditional channels of commerce. Videogames for Humans, curated and introduced by Twine author and games theorist merritt kopas, puts Twine authors, literary writers, and games critics into conversation with one another’s work, reacting to, elaborating on, and being affected by the same. The result is an unprecedented kind of book about video games, one that will jump-start the discussions that will define the games culture of tomorrow. http://www.elizabethsampat.com/talks-1 daily 0.75 2022-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873357317-FPKZTYWSEFO85S0W7WB4/IndieCade_logo.png Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873357580-MGKJ3TONNQ17DSBHCDAI/npt.jpg Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873526705-RJHJT6AAVBWPYIMK9KM2/gdc_logo_thumb.jpg Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873476645-ZJ9WEQ3IXE39B6FKGXMT/5c19f665f264d6ffb04b0f31_uxweek-san-francisco-2016-amber-case-300x152.png Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873361329-UGSZK86Y6EDS6PQKG4XL/saam.png Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873814870-ICNWBELTS9HQI52OVJKU/itu.jpg Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873359649-ESJ4MZE4RK65GZPM20FU/1200px-New_Mexico_State_University_logo.svg.png Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595874033276-2N4CUMX0480Z6HWK593G/mos.png Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873690124-EYWHZXNIK8P1D338JDL7/gwd.jpg Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595873562142-WDXQ7L6KCR29G4K8WF5V/geekgirlcon-logo.png Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595874210893-3OHG1LX6XSC7ORU2F48A/metatopia3.jpg Talks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595874210895-M14SJFPKQJILEAY092D0/gencon.png Talks http://www.elizabethsampat.com/representation-matters-spelunky daily 0.75 2016-03-23 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/gameography daily 0.75 2019-04-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1512252128516-P6XAS10FZSDKPQB6VWT0/BigCracks_RG_DuskGradient_WC.jpg Gameography http://www.elizabethsampat.com/home daily 0.75 2019-12-22 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/home-1 daily 1.0 2020-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595674650600-O8RNU5BVY8WT185BZW63/image-asset.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1595872600405-CX50GFR3P6ZU3RQTMT3M/image-asset.png Home - Speaking Requests Over the years, I've given dozens of talks at conferences and universities around the United States and Europe. I've talked about topics like how to fall back in love with what you do, why you should make games that scare you, and how to support and hire marginalized people. I’ve also appeared on a number of podcasts as an expert, including Masters of Scale with LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. http://www.elizabethsampat.com/about-me daily 0.75 2021-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1634260596830-YW9GN9YV2AUQSS7TZZR5/headshot.jpg About Me http://www.elizabethsampat.com/consulting daily 0.75 2022-01-26 http://www.elizabethsampat.com/essays daily 0.75 2020-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875395-KHGJUIAV52G5T03Z01F8/blowback.jpg Games - Blowback (Copy) A tabletop RPG about spies and the people who love them. 2010 Indie Game award nominee: Indie Game Of The Year, Best Production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1515090551014-69LK96AHJNHABS2AYKR0/DAfgss.png Games - Am I Part of the Problem? (Copy) An interactive tool to craft meaningful apologies and make appropriate amends. Played over 10,000 times its first week live. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875497-GTFBNFNU6AMB3HKQ1A9U/deadbolt.jpg Games - Deadbolt (Copy) Part game, part performance: a bespoke game about being your most honest, vulnerable self with friends and strangers. A 2013 Indiecade Award nominee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1515090551502-ZWBTYB7V5E3JB5P9ISO3/qkIQaG.png Games - 8 Vignettes From The Tech Industry (Copy) An interactive essay in counterpoint to the infamous "Google Memo." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875551-VIZG1T18IUYY71L607ON/htbh.jpg Games - How to be Happy (Copy) A physics-based dating simulator, made in partnership with Loren Hernandez. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c9e931c1210665124e131/1452067875952-ICI8K5DZFU466KXFIGFT/nineteen.jpg Games - nineteen (Copy) My experience surviving terminal depression. TW: ideation, methodology.