The Pixel Project

The Pixel Project is a complete virtual, volunteer-led global 501(c)3 nonprofit organisation whose mission is to raise awareness, funds and volunteer power for the cause to end violence against women using a combination of social media, new technologies, and popular culture/the Arts.

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As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to the awesome Ian Gregory, co-founder and creative director of Witching Hour Studios who created the award-winning MASQUERADA. Having commited the egregious sin of doing poorly in school as a Singaporean, Ian starting working young and only returned to his studies at 23, receiving a scholarship at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. In 2010, his second year there, Ian co-founded Witching Hour Studios with some friends. Six years on, Witching Hour has garnered awards and international recognition for their line of Ravenmark games and the off-kilter Romans in My Carpet!. Their latest title, Masquerada: Songs and Shadows, was successfully funded on Kickstarter. Ian takes an interest in education and the proliferation of the local game industry, spending his time engaging with schools, government agencies and industry partners. Aside from Witching Hour and industry endeavours, you can find him playing board games, tabletop RPGs and lots of Lego.

Witching Hour is a Gaming For Pixels partner and will be sponsoring some goodies for gamers who take part in the 1st Gaming For Pixels Spring Slam from April 7th – 9th 2017.

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As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to Hyacinth Nil and Reed Lewis, co-founders of Abyssal Uncreations. Hyacinth Nil is a nonbinary interactive artist, musician, and game maker from New York. They make things about gender, kink, computers, alien ruins, dead gods, and the stuff that scares us. Reed Lewis is a nonbinary novelist from New York.  Abyssal Uncreations was formed when they realised that they had a story that they wanted to tell that they hadn’t seen before. They are purveyors of dark media with a purpose, creators of multifaceted narratives meant to simultaneously unnerve and shine a light on issues of identity, queerness, gender, neurodivergence, and other themes they’d like to see more of in media they consume. _transfer is their first video game.

Abyssal Uncreations is a Gaming For Pixels partner. They have donated some goodies to the 1st Gaming For Pixels Spring Slam from April 7th – 9th 2017.

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CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT: The Pixel Project's Gaming For Pixels campaign website is now LIVE AND KICKING and the registration period for our upcoming Spring Slam gaming marathon in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month has begun!

If you're a gamer or you know someone who is one, check it out and sign up to support the Gaming For Pixels campaign!

Use your gaming powers as a force for good for ending violence against women and girls all over the world!

Learn more about Gaming For Pixels @ http://is.gd/Gaming4Pixels Sign up to join the Spring Slam 2017 @ http://is.gd/SpringSlam2017

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As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to the fabulous Gwen Guo who is a Singapore-based sound designer for video games and also the co-founder of IMBA Interactive with 7 years in the industry. Serving mainly the indie community, she hopes that excellent audio production, implementation and practices can contribute to indie games rising to become a powerful storytelling medium in this region. IMBA Interactive is a Singapore-based game audio studio founded in 2013. They create original sounds, noises, music tracks, and voice work and integrate them into games, videos and installations. They have contributed sonically to a wide variety of mobile, desktop, console and VR games, including award-winning titles such as “Masquerada:Songs and Shadows” (Witching Hour Studios), and “Mr. Catt” (7quark).

IMBA Interactive is a Gaming For Pixels partner and will be taking part in the 1st Gaming For Pixels Spring Slam from April 7th – 9th 2017.

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CALL TO ACTION: The Pixel Project’s Gaming For Pixels campaign is rallying gamers to come together as a force for good to end violence against women online and in communities worldwide.

Join our Gaming For Pixels Spring Slam 2017 gaming marathon from 8pm EST April 7th – 8pm EST April 9th 2017 in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Do a charity livestream solo or in teams or organize a gaming party to raise funds to empower our work to end violence against women. You might even win some nifty prizes!

Find out more and sign up for the Spring Slam @ http://is.gd/Gaming4Pixels

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As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to awesome Sig Gunnarsson, co-founder, gamer designer, and art director of Studio Wumpus. Brooklyn-based Studio Wumpus are the acclaimed developers of Sumer – a digital board game inspired by M.U.L.E. and the Epic of Gilgamesh. Race across the ziggurat to harvest barley, herd goats, and sacrifice to the great goddess Inanna. Sumer draws on modern Eurogame design elements like worker placement, territory control, and auctions. Its unique innovation is to place these into an action video game.

Check out Sig’s interview here.

Studio Wumpus is a Gaming For Pixels partner. They have donated some goodies to and will be taking part in the 1st Gaming For Pixels Spring Slam from April 7th – 9th 2017.

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CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT: The Pixel Project, a 501(c)3 anti-Violence Against Women non-profit, is thrilled to announce the new partners and prizes for their first ever Gaming For Pixels Spring Slam. The Spring Slam is a 48-hour weekend online gaming marathon that will run from 8pm EST Friday April 7th 2017 – 8pm EST Sunday April 9th 2017. It is held in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month and in aid of the Celebrity Male Role Model Pixel Reveal campaign which aims to get men and boys on board the cause to end violence against women (VAW) and raise $1 million for The Pixel Project.

The Spring Slam prizes are limited-availability goodies based on a “set and earn” model which encourages gamers to set their own fundraising goals based on the different fundraising achievement prizes available. The gamer will then have to reach or exceed said goal as quickly as possible to earn the reward(s) attached to it. Here’s an example of how it works: A gamer sets their fundraising goal at $100 when they sign up for the Spring Slam. There are 10 sets of a prize available for gamers who fulfil their $100 fundraising goal. To earn the prize set for that level, the gamer will need to raise $100 as quickly as possible before all 10 units of the prize have been claimed by other gamers.

The prizes are sponsored by Gaming For Pixels community partners Fundeavour and Studio Wumpus as well as new partners from the U.S. and Singapore: Abyssal Uncreations, Arcen Games, IMBA Interactive, Supergiant Games, and Witching Hour Studios. Thanks to their generosity, gamers worldwide will be able to win some fantastic goodies including Steam codes for some of the most innovative games today including SUMER (Studio Wumpus), MASQUERADA (Witching Hour Studios) and the full selection of Arcen games including AI WAR: FLEET COMMAND. One lucky gamer will also be able to earn a sought-after custom glitch piece by Hyacinth, co-founder of Abyssal Uncreations – a piece of image-bending digital art for their own enjoyment.

For U.S.-based gamers, award-winning Supergiant Games also has some limited edition TRANSISTOR swag including a TRANSISTOR concert poster (Glicee edition) signed and personalised by Supergiant’s art director, Jen Zee; and a collectible figure signed and personalised by Jen Zee and Supergiant’s 3D artist, Camilo Vanegas

For the full announcement: https://is.gd/OVP8b2

To learn more about Gaming For Pixels and sign up for the Spring Slam: http://is.gd/Gaming4Pixels

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INSPIRATIONAL INTERVIEW: Our March 2017 Inspirational Interview (also a Gaming For Pixels campaign interview) is with Stephanie Harvey, Co-Founder of Misscliks. 

A five-time world champion in competitive Counter-Strike, and longtime female pro-gaming icon, Stephanie Harvey currently plays professionally for the all-female team CLG Red. She also worked as a game designer for Ubisoft Montreal, having notably been part of development for Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Far Cry Primal. Her 16 years in e-Sports as a player and 7 years in the industry as a developer awarded her a Forbes 30 under 30 title in 2014 and one of the BBC 100 women of 2016.

In her interview with us, Stephanie talks about harassment and sexism in the gaming community and industry as well as what she's doing to counter that.

Cross-posted from the main Pixel Project website: www.thepixelproject.net. Originally published as the March 2017 edition of The Pixel Project’s Inspirational Interviews series.

Are you a gamer interested in supporting the cause to end violence against women or do you know gamers who do? Check out our Gaming For Pixels campaign that’s kicking off with our Spring Slam gaming marathon fundraiser that is taking place from 8pm EST 7 April - 8pm EST 9 April 2017 for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Sign up to help raise funds for the cause while gaming and to earn some awesome goodies!

(Picture is courtesy of Stephanie Harvey)

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As part of our Gaming For Pixels interview series, The Pixel Project spoke to the amazing Michelle Tan who is the Founder and CEO of Fundeavour – a social platform looking to improve the lives of gamers worldwide, including Youtubers, streamers and content creators.  Through a combination of Facebook, LinkedIn and Coursera-style elements, the platform empowers its gamers to build relationships with other gamers, work with brands, gain more exposure, and learn how to transform their passions into a potential career.

Fundeavour is a Gaming For Pixels partner and will be taking part in the 1st Gaming For Pixels Spring Slam from April 7th – 9th 2017.

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Saving the world when playing your favourite games? Why not be a force for good in the world for women and girls?

The Pixel Project's Gaming For Pixels campaign website is now LIVE and the registration period for our upcoming Spring Slam gaming marathon in support of Sexual Assault Awareness Month is now open!

If you're a gamer or you know someone who is one, check it out and sign up to support the Gaming For Pixels campaign!

Learn more about Gaming For Pixels @ http://is.gd/Gaming4Pixels Sign up to join the Spring Slam 2017 @ http://is.gd/SpringSlam2017

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CAMPAIGN UPDATE: Check out The Pixel Project's first ever Read For Pixels Flash Donation Matching Weekend courtesy of New York Times bestselling mystery/thriller author Karen Rose.

The Flash Donation Matching Weekend will take place from 12am PST March 11th 2017 to 11.59pm PST March 13th 2017. Ms. Rose has pledged a dollar-to-dollar match for up to a maximum of $4000 in donations made to the Read For Pixels 2017 (International Women's Day Edition) campaign during this period.

Ms. Rose’s generous pledge covers any donations coming in via the Read For Pixels (IWD Edition) fundraiser during these three days whether they are made by book fans in order to get exclusive perks and goodies from their favourite authors (including Ms. Rose herself) or are standalone donations.

Goodies include 1-to-1 Skype chats, signed first editions or special editions of their books, unique goodie bundles, and more from Aliette de Bodard, Jacqueline Carey, Karen Rose, Kendare Blake, Kristin Cast, Laini Taylor, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michelle Hodkin, Shannon Mayer, Tessa Gratton. Kate Elliot, Alyson Noel, Anne Bishop, Darynda Jones, Diana Gabaldon, Keri Arthur, Kimberly Derting and many more.

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ACTIVIST SPOTLIGHT (INDIA): Meet anti-Violence Against Women campaigner Sunitha Krishnan who made the bold and controversial move of posting real footage of men raping women on the Internet. Krishnan does not think any of the men in the videos are first time offenders.

 “I don’t believe in vendetta, but I think it is time to use their own weapon on them. Technology can help rape survivors to tell their truth too,” she said in an interview with Women in the World.

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 Picture: via The New York Times

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