Fresh Out Of Tokens

We chatted with Mikki Kendall about her debut comic, #SwordsOfSorrow, breaking into the industry, speaking at AlterConf Chicago, diversity in conventions and more. We’re part of the Geeked.fm network along with Geeks in Sneaks, Chromatic Life and More than Bits. We have tees, and other items in the #INeedDiverseGames spreadshirt shop. We’re splitting the profits 50/50 with Chachibobinks. Thanks to Shareef Jackson for posting a pic with his mug! We’ve got a blog to compliment the show! Follow us at outoftokenscast.wordpress.com If you have questions, compliments, hate mail feel free to drop a note there as well. Articles: Mafia III trailer released, has black man who is a vet, set in NOLA in 1968 What we’re playing/reading: Mikki: Reading for Hidden Youth, Fifth Season by NK Jemisin, Colors In, Tanya: Witcher 3, Dragon Age Inquisition David: Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Star Trek Online Where to find our guest online: Twitter: @karnythia Tumblr: karnythia.tumblr.com hoodfeminism.com mikkikendall.com Swords of Sorro

So we’re doing things a little differently this time around, David gets the night off as we have a ladies night to spill all our Hawke feels on the table, the floor, everywhere. Tanya is joined by Sylvia Monreal and LC Brown to have a night of Hawke FEELS! This happened because of a question LC asked of Sylvia before she joined us for the first time on Fresh Out of Tokens. Also! We had our first fanmail relevant to both Dragon Age and Sylvia's time with us, so we added that into the show :) Full text is below: > Subject: ALL THE DRAGON AGE FEELZ! Hello! I just wanted to say that I really loved your discussion on Dragon Age and the Hawke Immigration piece! I was really pleased that other people put as much personal stuff onto their Hawkes/Inquisitors as I do. I’ve had issues with masculinity in general and as a queer man, something that playing Mass Effect and Dragon Age have helped me with. I just wanted to say that I really loved this episode and I think that Fresh Out of Tokens is really fantastic and y

We chatted with Amy about gender disparity in voice acting, queer indie games research, WoW Raid design and starting a feminist gaming club at her college among lots of things! We were featured in FemHype’s Sunday Loot on August 2nd! They had a piece every Sunday about a different topic or highlighting folks in the gaming space. We got a lovely write up along with our Brookago bro’s Spawn on Me, AppleCider Mage and Tzoefit on Justice Points, Anna Tarkov and Jessica Dennis from Unconsoleable, BTAPodcast Network, along with a few other podcasts we didn’t know about. Question for Amy: David had a question about the game Amy made: There’s a Bee in Here Articles: EA Wraps Up First Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program What’s Wrong with Being a Fangirl? Can’t Talk Media - Andrew Baker (@ABakerN7) (in response to the Telegraph piece: Fangirling your Faves is Cheap and Childish Mafia III trailer released, has black man as lead character One way to avoid Cultural Appropriation - Laura Hudson, Offworld What we’re pl

We talk about Indie to AAA games marketing, get a lesson on #AltGames from our guest Jason Vega, aka @vegapedia everywhere and a lot more. We had a great time with Jason and look forward to more from him in the #AltGames space. Question for Jason: Via @Comosedicenerd on twitter: I've read a bit about #altgames and want to learn more - any recommendations on what to play/read? Thanks! Follow a bot created Soha_Kareem: @supportaltgames soha kareem: @sokareemie she’s also here: Press Here to Bitch TJ Thomas: TRONMAXIMUM IndieCade AltGames on Twitter itch.io Jonah Peretti: http://www.critical-theory.com/buzzfeed-founder-responds-to-his-marxist-roots-lol/ What we’re playing: Jason: Strawberry Cubes, Journey Tanya: Witcher 3, Mortal Kombat X, Journey David: Shadowrun: Dragonfall #AltGames folks you should follow: PyunPyunChan TRONMAXIMUM Where to find our guest online: Twitter: @vegapedia Tumblr: http://vegapedia.tumblr.com Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/vegapedia YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/vegapedia Patreon: h

Se habla geek? Si! We hung out out with @comosedicenerd, Sylvia Monreal about Latinx representation in games, diversity in books and gaming and a whole lot more. We’re part of the Geeked.fm network along with Geeks with Sneaks, Chromatic Life and More than Bits. We’ve got a blog to compliment the show! Follow us at outoftokenscast.wordpress.com If you have questions, compliments, hate mail feel free to drop a note there as well. Don't forget about the Fresh Out of Tokens section on the #INeedDiverseGames spreadshirt shop! Logo designed by @ChachiBobinks! Questions for Sylvia! @thain1982 asked: What are some of your favourite games AND BOOKS, representation-wise (all ages. I want many diverse stories for my family) Recommendations from Sylvia: •Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older •My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor •How I Became a Nun by César Aira (translated by Chris Andrews) •Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education edited by Jennifer De Leon •Anything by Sandra Cisneros •Anything recommended by La Casa Azú

Lauren Warren of Black Girl Nerds talked with us about gaming, diversity, old school games we loved, projects she's working on to help spread diversity in the gaming space; and more. We’re part of the Geeked.fm network along with Geeks with Sneaks, Chromatic Life and More than Bits. We’ve got a blog to compliment the show! Follow us at outoftokenscast.wordpress.com If you have questions, compliments, hate mail feel free to drop a note there as well. Don't forget about the Fresh Out of Tokens section on the #INeedDiverseGames spreadshirt shop! Logo designed by @ChachiBobinks! Question for Lauren: Chicovia on twitter: @OutOfTokensCast @iamlaurenp ask her why she hates ps4 so much

Question for Caelyn: From @KivaBay: Would you rather be attacked by a hundred duck sized horses or one horse sized duck. What we’re playing: Caelyn: Fantasy Life, Salt, Ingress Tanya: Witcher 3 David: Shadowrun: Dragonfall, Morrowind Where to find our guest online: Twitter: @Inurashii Games: http://inurashii.xyz/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/inurashii?ty=h Blog: http://inurashii.xyz/category/blog/ AlterConf Boston 2014 - Rise of the Diary Game Choice of Games Where to find your hosts online: Tanya D. - @cypheroftyr // @INeedDivGms Twitch: twitch.tv/cypheroftyr // twitch.tv/INeedDivGames Patreon: patreon.com/INeedDiverseGames David L. Reeves - Patreon , @RedConversation, twitch

We were joined by Steve Lubitz for a WickedGood time talking about parenting as a gamer, Judaism and religion in games, what we're playing and more. Question for Steve: Tauriq Moosa - via Twitter Why do you want to ban games Steve? What we’re playing: Steve: Hearthstone, Final Fantasy 7 Tanya: Witcher 3, Mass Effect, Bioshock Infinite David: Adventurer Manager, Papo & Yo, Shadowrun: Dragonfall Where to find your hosts online: Tanya D.: @cypheroftyr // @INeedDivGms Twitch: twitch.tv/cypheroftyr // twitch.tv/INeedDivGms INeedDiverseGame Patreon David L. Reeves: @RedConversation David on Patreon Twitch: Red_Conversation

We have Gita Jackson in the house! We talk about games journalism, being seen for your work, along with podcasting and much more! Thanks for the support! Now we have tees, and other items in the #INeedDiverseGames spreadshirt shop. We’re splitting the profits 50/50 with Chachibobinks who designed our supercute new logo. We're also pleased to announce that we're now part of the Geeked.FM network! We had questions for Gita from our listeners: Deborah Budding (@Nebula63) asked: Gita, how are you managing to be so awesome at such a young age? Shareef Jackson (@ShareefJackson) asked: What advice would Gita give to someone that wants to try out dating sims? What we’re playing: Gita: Fire Emblem: Awakening Tanya: Witcher 3, Rust, Mass Effect David: Wasteland 2, Papo & Yo, Massive Chalice Article: My E3 Meeting With A Pro-GamerGate Developer Kotaku Where to find our guest online: Gita is back on twitter! @xoxogossipgita Planning on streaming on twitch sometime after the 4th: twitch.tv/xoxogossipgita Catch up with

We welcome Catt Small, Chris Algoo and Dennis Liaw to talk about Brooklyn Gamery, along with Arthur Ward to talk about #BlackGameDev and blackgamedevs.com Reminder that we have tees, and other items in the #INeedDiverseGames spreadshirt shop. We’re splitting the profits 50/50 with Chachibobinks who designed our supercute logo and banner. Please give feedback, questions and guest suggestions to us at freshoutoftokens@gmail.com or @OutOfTokensCast on twitter! Notes for this week's topic: Shawn Alexander started the hashtag #BlackGameDev, and since we recorded has launched a diversity consulting business for Indie Devs Black Game Devs listing Gaming news: 1TB PS4 announced. Thoughts on this since you could already upgrade the hard drive in the PS4 since launch? Tale of Tales shutting down after Sunset - can “artistic” games be commercially viable? Arkham Knight PC sales suspended - who’s more to blame? WB (publisher), Iron Galaxy (dev), or people that pre-order Catt Small's Offworld Piece on Developing A Black W

Our fabulous guests! Katherine Cross, our dapper scholastic games critiquer extraordinaire whose work appears in Feministing and Gamasutra, next we have Tauriq Moosa, who loves the Witcher 3 while giving it a critical side eye, is wicked smart and writes for Polygon, Guardian, Daily Beast, Mary Sue, an and quite a few other places. Last but certainly not least, we have Austin Walker, who recently joined Giant Bomb, congrats on the newish gig! Apologies in advance for some audio issues. Technology turned on us mid-recording so there's been some editorial finagling done to bring you this episode. Articles: Colorblind: On The Witcher 3, Rust,and Gaming's Race Problem - Tauriq in Polygon More On Race, More on Witcher and how to Move Forward - Austin, Giant Bomb Witcher 3, Race and Histriocity - Austin, Giant Bomb Opinion: Finding Meaning in Darkest Dungeon’s Narrative Design - Katherine Cross, Gamasutra GDC 2015 #1 Reason to Be - Katherine Cross Rust Dev Blog on randomly Assigned race in Rust - Garry Newman R

Welcome back! Thanks for joining us for the second episode of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast. Thanks for your feedback on our first show. As for the audio quality, it should be improved with this episode due to new equipment and individually recorded tracks instead of one track for everyone. Now we have tees, and other items in the #INeedDiverseGames spreadshirt shop. We’re splitting the profits 50/50 with @ChachiBobinks who designed our supercute new logo. Thanks again for the kind words, listens and shares! We're now on Facebook, iTunes and Stitcher! You can get our RSS feed to add to your favorite podcast listening app. The one place we're not yet on is SoundCloud. We're trying to decide on setting up shop there too. That said, feel free to give feedback, topic ideas or if you want to come and hang with us, drop a line to us at freshoutoftokens@gmail.com or on twitter at @OutOfTokensCast. We've got music in this episode! "Magical Girls Can Trap" & "Internet Kids" used with permission

Welcome to the first episode of Fresh Out of Tokens! A little about the show: so we've been sitting on doing a podcast for a whole and decided to run with it. The title actually came to about due to a comment when I was on Justice Points earlier in the year. I made a crack about tokens belonging in the arcade, and when I was trying to think of a name for the show fresh out of tokens came to me. We'll bring you a new show every other week, sometimes with a guest sometimes not depending on how things shake out. Since this is the first episode, please feel free to give feedback, topic ideas or if you want to come and hang with me let me know at freshoutoftokens@gmail.com or on twitter at @OutOfTokensCast. Gaming news: Colorblind: On Witcher 3, Rust, and gaming's race problem http://t.co/fPj1234Pw8 Luke Maciak on the Witcher 3: http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2015/06/04/witcher-3-and-diversity/ Patricia Hernandez - How Video Game Breasts are Made, and How they Can go Wrong E3 - thoughts, predictions, an