Author: Jae

An Interview with I Need Diverse Games Director Tanya DePass.

On May 28th, Google’s Lead Digital Coach in Illinois, JinJa Birkenbeue, sat down to have a chat with Sugar Gamers founder Keisha Howard.

Sugar Gamers would like to welcome back special contributor Tamiko Little! She has been taking a critical look at the game industry, especially in terms of demographics and diversity. She was excited to share her latest paper with our readers. Say the word gamer and the first image that comes to mind is a white, anti-social, pre-adolescent, or adult male, who spends their time playing video games all day. Picture comic book dude from The Simpsons as an example. It’s who the video game companies’ market to, but they are not the only ones playing games anymore. First, I’ll talk…

When it comes to investing in clothing these days, people really like to get bang for their buck. Imagine buying a shirt that supports our tech advocacy here at Sugar Gamers AND helps aid the homeless community. Imagine that this shirt had a totally rad design and was printed on a high quality tee shirt. Allow us to introduce our latest collaboration with homelessness advocates Lost Format! Keisha Howard and Jennifer Tonge rocking our Lost Format Shirts! We couldn’t be more excited to bring these cool, vibrant shirts to the world! With a $30 purchase of one of these shirts…

GDC 2019 is quickly approaching and we wanted to let everyone know Sugar Gamers will be there in force! Our fearless Founder and CEO Keisha Howard and our Editor in Chief Rebecca Rothschild will be on site! Keisha will have the latest developments with our partner Live CGI on display. You can find Rebecca at the Mutant Football League booth showing off the game she proudly worked on. Beyond representing their perspective projects, Rebecca and Keisha will be at GDC to further expand the reach of Sugar Gamers by making themselves available for meetings. They will be looking for new…

We here at Sugar Gamers are so lucky to have a friend in wildly successful illustrator and artist John Gallagher. The odds that you haven’t seen some of his handy work are VERY low. Just check his IMDB! John has a been a supporter of SG for a long time and we are overdue to pick his hyper creative brain! John is a great resource for anyone looking to pursue success in a creative and competitive field. I want to thank him for taking the time to chat with me! You say you were born curious. How do you stay…

Comics, ladies and gentlemen. We read them, and they transport us to new worlds and universes. The pages flow with stories that smash our imaginations with wave after wave of detail and imagery, showing us what’s possible within the vastness of the human mind. At least that’s what supposed to happen. Comics are in an interesting place now. As the face of popular culture, it’s no longer “strange” to be into Spider-Man or Batman. As widespread as it is, it’s harder than ever to fall in love with the funny pages. As the times have changed, comics have lost some…

I am 50-year-old woman who plays video games. I am not by any stretch of the imagination the “target market”. When I do play MMO’s like Fortnite or Overwatch I am more often than not playing with people, usually male, who are the same age as my children and grandchildren. But I don’t care because, I love playing video games! The first time I played video games was at my friend Misty’s house on her Atari. We would spend hours playing Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Centipede. Later I played text-based RPG’s on a Commodore 64 (Does anyone remember Forbidden Forest?) As a single Mom I would go…

Comicsgate has once again made its way to my front door, not by way of harassment, which was my first encounter with it. This time around it came in the form of a friend and fellow comic creator. We’re both fans of the Furies in the DC universe so we were both excited about the new series DC was putting out called Female Furies. For the first issue, the interior art by Adriana Melo is amazing. There were some fun aspects about the book, like getting see good ‘ole Granny Goodness in her younger years. However, and with all due…