I'm Stevie Ward, CM over at
@PCGamer
and hotdesker at
@WCultureGaming
I've worked on GamesMaster, EVE Online, Guitar Hero Live, EVE: Valkyrie, SWTOR, Insomnia Gaming Festival, SpecialEffect and I present, podcast, do voiceover and host events. 💛
Hi folks, I'm now able to attend industry events, panels and talks again, and can get to London for things by myself. It's been a long road, but I'm back.😎
Thank you all so much for your support over the last 6 months, this community is amazing.💛
While the potential for Kotick leaving is exciting, todays news fostering a "Well, Mircosoft bought ABK, ALL IS WELL" mindset can be potentially damaging for ABK's unions, victim kickstarters and movements for creating change. Please don't stop donating, listening and helping.💛
I'm nominated for 100 Women In Games - a search for the most influential women in the UK Games industry.
Winner or not, I'm going to use the potential influence of this tweet to ask you to check out
@SpecialEffect
who I'm delighted to ambassador for. 😉
Hey UK twitter folk, can you reply with 4-5 Women in the UK Games industry you think are inspiring and why? Trying to bulk up my feed with some thought leaders. 💛
In the spirit of
@PlayStationUK
's makover of Miles End and Clankaster Gate, lets rename all London train stops with a gaming version... I'll start:
Silent Muswell Hill 👻🚞
How anxiety sufferers read DM's without emoji:
"Let's meet at lunch."
God what have I done wrong and what happens at lunch?!
"Let's meet at lunch 🙂"
They want to meet at lunch.
I am so excited that
#Gamesmaster
has arrived on
@E4Tweets
, debuting on YouTube and then later in the week on TV.
Working on something that meant so much to me as a kid was really special. If you enjoy it, please send the cast your love - they really deserve the world. 💛
Things you can do to help get rid of racists, homophobes and misogynists in the gaming industry:
☑️ Report their social accounts
☑️ Report the accounts they use for content creation
☑️ Show brands who partner them what they are posting
☑️ Support those who are being hurt. 💛
@MoonxBloodMoon
✅You're not Gaming's gatekeeper 😉
✅Light art style/subject wont make a game easy or hard
✅Strategy games require strategic thinking not twitch skills
✅Bullying folks with different opinions doesn't make you stronger
✅Winning debates with uninformed debaters doesn't = fact
Innovation in tech is my passion. Delighted to announce in Sept I'll be Community Dev + streamer in residence
@caffeine
developing the live gaming entertainment + creative arts social broadcasting community + continuing my ambassadorship with
#TheGamersCharity
@SpecialEffect
💙,
It is so tragic that in 2019 women don't come forward about harassment in the games industry due to fear of being attacked or losing jobs. As a community we must understand there are vulnerable people at risk and unite. I urge you to talk to your employees. Talk to your boss.
I went on a date this week with a guy who had never played a video game, and honest to god, as much as our community can be toxic, I've never felt more like a weirdo stepping outside it.
I literally got this react 😭🥲
Online meetings:
Start meeting
See there is a dog
Point out dog
Ask you what the dogs name is
Make dog come to webcam
Baby talk at dog
Awkward silence when I remember I am on a call
Continue call whilst looking at dog
Remark on any changes or movement of dog
End meeting
It's my birthday!🍾
Massive love to my twitter family who brighten up every day with their gifs, hot takes and awesome content! 🌺
Art by the incredible
@lucydoesarts
💛
100% not trying to be injuriously negative but when most of my friends in the industry have been signed off, harassed, sexually abused or quit I'm not throwing a tea party over a census where most of the people surveyed were not from their bracket. 💛
This is enormously positive and we should be proud of it.
I have (maybe a touch controversially) felt that the industry can be injuriously negative of itself in a way other sectors simply aren't.
These figures suggest we can, just maybe, dial it back a bit?
Started on EVETV the 1st internet streamed show about an online game. I've been in the industry 12 years, worked on the launch title for Rift, launched AAA cross-platform communities and am a nominee for the
@GIBiz
100.
Don't give up. 🤓
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
2007- 2019
#MyFirstGamesJob
was as a TV presenter on EVETV (The EVE Online Show) in 2007 for
@CCPGames
. It was a worlds first. Twitch hadn't been invented yet and Youtube was months old. 🤣
I missed my final uni exam to film the pilot. 😎
#Tweetfleet
I know I should wait until December but...
I've been made permanent at
#caffeinetv
and they let me put
#Superman
at the top of our tree! 🎄
Such an amazing company and community, I'm so lucky. 💛❤️💙
#WorldMentalHealthDay
! It's easy to assume extroverts and "smiley, happy, bubbly people" don't suffer from anxiety or mental health issues, I 100% guarantee you they can. 😉
I've worked with amazing bosses who have 100% understood this - thank you for being an inspiration.💛
If you're having difficulty explaining to boomers why citizens taking down racist government property is a good thing, ask them if they were upset about property damage at this point in the Sound of Music. 🤔
I've never been nominated for a list before (I aged out of most industry awards a long time ago) so honestly having a little cry about this. 💛
Thank you,
@ShePlaysPodcast
#IWD2021
As an ex Activision employee I stand with and support the employees taking part in the
#ActiBlizzWalkout
.
Change needs to happen now, so many have already been effected. My heart is with you. 💙
Marginalised folks don't need to 'grow thicker skin' or accept hate crimes to use twitch.
Imagine saying to someone who got mugged "That's nothing, I got burgled. Learn to defend yourself."
We make streets safer, and jail attackers.
Twitch needs to grow a safer platform. 💛
So unbelievably touched by my goodbye gifts and card from
@SpecialEffect
! So looking forward to the years to come continuing my ambassadorship with you while I’m at
@caffeine
. You are the heartbeat of the UK games industry. 💛
"We're a start-up" or "We're an indie" gets used often to justify poor treatment, moving goal posts, inexperienced management faux pas etc.
If you have 3 employees or 3,000, you're either a good employer who values your employee or you're not.
#gamedev
#comdev
#recruitment
Happy Birthday
#EveOnline
!
Celebrating by sharing some of my fave old skool CCP StevieSG +
@CCP_Redcape
snaps 😎 o7
EVETV Episode 1 Promo - 2007
Alliance Tournament 6 - 2009
The
#EVEValkyrie
Dev team -2017
Remember logging in and out of msn to let your crush know you were online via that annoying pop up and then they didn't message and it was like, why tho? 😭🤣
#FIREFLY
is trending!
Oh, it's a teaching app...
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal, twitter.
(There's still time for an app that teaches Firefly though!)
Community/Social Managers who are working this weekend to clear up awful comments, please make sure you take time to self care, take breaks, and talk to someone if you need to. Reading the multitude of awful takes from this weeks news is super rough. 💛
If you spent most of this year talking about fostering diversity in the games industry and then put your events behind giant pay walls you need to learn what diversity is again.💛
What
@FallGuysGame
and the wonderful people who donated to
@SpecialEffect
have done is life changing and the best thing that's happened this year.💛
A reminder that gamers can be selfless, kind, hilarious and make the world a better place.
Recovery update: Tomorrow I get sign off from Hospital to try touch toe walking. So nervous!
I never got a wheelchair. It turns out this puppy does the trick. 🤣 Thanks
@noblechairs
🤪
Excited to be hosting the
@MCV_DEVELOP
Women in Games Awards tommorow! Looking forward to seeing so many incredible people and celebrating everything they do for the industry. 💛
So
#Gladiators
is back and it’s perfect and I was member
#00007
of the postal fan club and had the sticker album and toys and posters and I went to see it being filmed and VHS signings at blockbuster and I’m so happy,
@BBCOne
you’ve done the most amazing job on the reboot. 💛
One year since the fall! Celebrating my anKNEEversary with a lil car park contemporary dance.🤣
Thank you to everyone for the encouragement - it was hard work but it did get better.💛