Implosion of a reality show
2014-04-03 00:26:19.881267+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
/. reports that a Pepsi/Mountain Dew sponsored hackathon game development event has imploded because one of the organizers was just so horrendously over the top sexist and obnoxious that several of the participants quit.
That links to:
- Indie Statik: How The Most Expensive Game Jam In History Crashed And Burned In A Single Day
- Adriel Wallick: Let’s talk about accountability
- Zoe Quinn: Unreality: My feelings after being on and subsequently walking off a reality show about game jams
- Robin Arnott: “GAME_JAM” and the Power of Integrity: “Do you think you’re at an advantage because you have a pretty lady on your team?”
The story of those people taking a stand is worth a read, and maybe if we have more principled people like this we can start showing advertisers that we don't like what they're doing to our world...
...but..., I will say that all 4 of those pages caused me to do something I haven't done in years: Go to the "View" menu, select "Page Style", and then "No Style", in order to read them.