INTRO FOR TECH CAMP URUGUAY 2024
Heeeey!
If you found this page, it means you were either at Tech Camp Uruguay or a good friend of yours was there and is sharing cool resources (that´s a cool friend you got there, better get them a coffee or beer to thank them).
Please enjoy the next free resources and stupid memes! Cheers!
-Sarah Makdad, your Moroccan-French trainer
RESOURCES SEEN DURING THE TRAINING SESSIONS
JOB HUNTING
Games Industry Job Hunt is a private slack helping devs share opportunities within their studios as well as find missions elsewhere.
💸 FUNDING 💸
WINGS invests in indie games by teams in which women and marginalized gender developers hold key positions.
WINGS is funding games up to $500,000.
It also has annual scholarships to help devs attend GDC for free!
Global Games Fund is the funding powered by gamedevworld (a fully online game dev event).
It funds pre-production & prototype stage game projects by developers in emergent territories with up to US$50,000 in funding, mentorship, and access.
The Moonrise Fund is Glitch´s early stage equity fund backing people, not projects.
$120-$250k in exchange for equity in the studio, no voting rights needed.
indie Fund is structured like an investment syndicate.
For each project we invest in, each investor chooses for themselves if they'd like to participate or not, and if they want to participate then how much money they want to invest.
Outersloth is a new fund created by Innersloth, the dev team behind Among Us!
Run by Forest Willard (CEO) and Victoria Tran (Comms Director), the fund focuses on projects between $50k-$2m)
PITCH DECKS
INCUBATOR AND FREE COURSES
SHOWCASES (free submissions yeeeah)
ONLINE HARASSMENT TOOLS / RESOURCES
REDACT.DEV view your history on social media (posts and likes) and mass delete
CRASH OVERDRIVE resources for when things go very bad for you or someone in your team
MEGABLOCK block the tweet, its author, and every person who liked it
MENTAL HEALTH
👩🏽🔧GAME JAMS 🎮
CONNECT WITH OTHER GAME DEVS
COOL STUFFS TO CHECK OUT
FREE TALKS VOD from GDC
FREE TALKS VOD from Game Devs of Color Expo
FREE TALKS VOD from LudoNarraCon
FREE TALKS VOD from Indie Game Business
The video game funding gap: How investors are failing marginalized developers by Polygon
PUBLISH ME, PUNISH ME a podcast examining deal practices in the industry by Son M and Evva Karr
The Small Company at the Center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’ by The Wired
Video Game Industry Layoffs Are Worse Than Ever. How Did We Get Here? by Gamespot