Still need a ticket for GaymerX?
The Logitech G Scholarship program provides the opportunity for game students, developers, and fans to attend GaymerX Year Four (GX4) when they may not otherwise be able to do so.
To apply for a free 3 day pass to GaymerX, plus a swag bag from Logitech, head over to https://gaymerx.com/gx4logitechscholarship
See you all soon!
The Expo Hall at GaymerX this year features a first, The Diversity Theater. Here companies and organizations will showcase their initiatives, offerings, and recruitment opportunities. Reinforcing the truth that diversity isn’t merely accepted in today’s game and tech industry, it’s in demand.
We’re excited about this great addition to our expo hall, where attendees can meet representatives from companies like Intel, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Patreon!
Microsoft Session: ID@Xbox Program overview 4:30 – 5:20 pm
Becoming an independent developer and shipping games is easier than it ever has been, but finding success as a developer is as challenging as ever. In this talk, you’ll learn about Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program for independent developers, as well as our take on essential issues that developers need to address during development to maximize your chances for commercial success with your game.
Stop by the Intel Booth: #504
In the Diversity Theatre:
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Today’s the last day to book a hotel room for GaymerX at the group rate ($145)! After this, room prices will likely be double!
Please use this link to book a hotel now and tell anyone you know who was planning to go!
https://aws.passkey.com/event/14827516/owner/2281/home
** Sunday night rooms might already be full! **
Just think of how much easier it’ll be to cosplay when you’re staying at the venue!
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GaymerX attendees and fans,
This is a tragic and pivotal time for the queer community, after beloved members of our community were senselessly taken from us in Orlando. This unspeakable hate crime against our friends and family, gay & queer people of color at a gay Latinx event, shows just how at risk we still are every day in this country and why our fight is far from over.
For the rest of June, GaymerX will be donating $20 of all GaymerX Year Four (GX4) 3-day ticket sales to Pulse Victims Fund, Orlando Youth Alliance and Zebra Youth to a minimum of $1,500
Moving forward, we will be reviewing our security procedures with our team and Santa Clara Hyatt & Convention Center to ensure the continued safety of attendees and volunteers at our events.
GaymerX and its community stands in solidarity with the LGBTQ people of Orlando and all of the people who now give support in the wake of this tragedy. We will continue to gather, we will continue to fight to build our community together as a family.
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Since GaymerX is run by our community, we wanted to give you all a chance to help us make it awesome!
We’ve added several stretch goals to help us do more! We really need your help to reach out to your friends, the ones who are gonna get that last minute day-of ticket, and make sure they get their tickets and back this campaign ASAP! Getting your tickets NOW makes it a lot easier for us to potentially expand and open up more tickets!
SPEAKING OF TICKETS, we are also opening up more early bird tickets! Some of you noticed and messaged us about how quickly they sold out. It seems like we’re going to be selling out sooner than usual this year!!
Below are the stretch goals we’re looking to reach! Once the campaign is complete, we will also be able to put ticket sales towards these goals as well, so the more tickets we sell the closer we get as well! ୧ʕ•̀ᴥ•́ʔ୨
It really isn’t a lot to raise so please keep spreading the word and also giving us your feedback because at the end of the day that’s gonna be a big factor in what we do!!
Please please please make sure to get your tickets and hotel rooms ASAP because they are going a lot faster than previous years! We will do everything we can to accommodate everyone who wants to go!
Get tickets here: http://gx4.eventbrite.com/
Get hotel rooms here: http://resweb.passkey.com/go/GaymerX16
As you may know, GaymerX has always been a project made for and by the community and your input is what drives the directions we move in. So we wanted to take this time to ask you some questions about what you’d like to see at our event!
Please fill out this form: GaymerX Year Four Suggestion Box!
We’re excited to announce that this year at GX3 our Press Lounge will be run by the beautiful folks at Unicorn Booty!
Unicorn Booty is an online magazine that connects readers of all sorts to news, culture and commentary on pop culture, politics, entertainment, travel, and anything interesting happening in the world. They’ll be covering major happenings at GX3 as a Media Sponsor and we’re so stoked to have them!
Unicorn Booty and their editor Daniel Villarreal will also be holding “The Effects of Gayme Addiction on Queers” panel at the con which you can RSVP for here!
In the meantime, be sure to check out the their GaymerX coverage so far including interviews with our Bosses of Honor, plus lots more fun, queer, geeky stuff you might not get to see elsewhere.
INTERVIEW: Why Robert Yang Makes Video Games About Sex With Cars
How To Respond To The Most Common Complaints About Newly Out Characters
INTERVIEW: Rob Jagnow Makes Fun Games About Class Issues And Bullying
Pop Stars as Final Fantasy VI Characters
GX, the Queer Gamers Conference, Is Invading Australia!
Spanish Artist Nacho Diaz Combines Classic Films With Vintage Video Games
‘Metroid: The Sky Calls’ Could Teach Nintendo How To Portray Women
N7 Day: How Mass Effect Helped Me Accept My Gender Identity
The True Story About The U.S. Hunt For Buried Fairy Treasures
Video Games On Vinyl? Check Out The Video Game That Was A B-Side!
A Look Inside Funspot, The World’s Largest Arcade
10 Classic Video Games That May Have Passed You By
“Nuclear War” Turns 50: A Fun Game About Human Extinction
Meet The Female Cosplayer Fighting Sexist Harassment
Love On Board: 10 Tabletop Games About Love
What If Female Video Game Characters Had Real Bodies?
Mini Gay Boyfriend: Gay Romance in Your Pocket!
Be sure to check out these and future content at Unicorn Booty where you can find some news that isn’t afraid to get a little gay and a little nerdy.
Hideho~ It’s your friendly neighborhood gaymer Kayla, with more juicy info about GX3 and our new MAGFest Arcade. We’ve been hard at work in the salt mines making sure to deck it out with all kinds of fun things for you to explore and check out, and we have something super cool for indie game devs joining us at GaymerX this year!
GX3 would like to present to you the Open Indie Space! There will be 8 spots total open to those indie developers who would like to show off their games in the Arcade!
This fancy free space comes with some limitations because we like to make sure everything is fair and square here at GaymerX. So let’s go over the rules of engagement. (PS if you don’t get the reference even with the hint we can’t be besties but you can still get a space)
The deadline for submitting a request to get a slot to show off in is Dec 5th, after that no new developers will be accepted as the schedule will be locked in and unable to change. So to sign up dance your wonderful selves over HERE and fill out the information needed for you to secure your very own timeslot.
We really want to celebrate our awesome, diverse indie game community and we’re so excited to be able to provide this space for indie game devs joining us this year! We really hope you join us and see all the new, awesome games in the arcade!
See you at GX3 in December!!
~ Kayla
Come join our amazing list of Bosses of Honor, play games brought to you by MAGfest, join panels with industry leaders, and meet gaymers from across the world, only at GX3!
ALSO:
Our friends down under have launched a campaign for GX Australia – we’re lending them the name and we’re so excited to be there in Sydney in February for the very first ever LGBTQ geek convention in the country.
You can join us, or support the campaign on the Kickstarter here!
Thank you all for helping us get this far and please hit us up at [email protected] or @gaymerx on twitter if you have questions, thoughts or concerns!
If You Don’t Get Your Tickets How Are You Gonna Hug Dad Bowser??
Greetings Future Sprites!
The GaymerX Sprite Castle is abuzz with GX3 preparations and we’re working hard to make sure it’s ready for the big event. But, we can’t make GX3 a success without help from as many Sprites as possible. After much planning and consideration, we’ve decided to give a special Sprite Blue 1-UP to our Volunteer Application Deadline! It matches our snazzy Sprite shirts, after all.
That’s totally a Sprite 1-Up Mushroom. Nothing mini here. Nope.
Our new deadline for applying to be a Sprite at GX3 is now Thursday, October 15th at 11:59 PM PST. You can read up on what it’s like to be a Sprite here and here. When you’re ready, you can fill out an application online here!
As always, you can reach Soraya Een Hajji and Brian Kunde with any questions via email at [email protected].
See you in San Jose!
-Soraya Een Hajji and Brian Kunde, Volunteer Co-Directors
