My "cheaper local convention" just sent me an email advertising a new grant program for marginalized game designers.
https://www.bigbadcon.com/blog/our-new-story-synth-microgrant-program/Basically, submit an application and create a game in 6 months and you'll be awarded $300 dollars and micro-transactions whenever anyone accesses your game online.
But, of course, I can't apply unless I pretend to be a faggot or something. The application is only open to: "Marginalized Gender, Disabled, BIMPOC (
), LGBTQUIA+, and Identity [Other].
Oh, and get this, you can check multiple boxes, and website says the program is focused on helping game designers at the
intersection of these identities. So if I were a morbidly obese black lesbian they would drool all over my application.
As a straight white, able-bodied male who works construction... odds are not so good.
I don't think I shall be attending this year BigBadCon, you furry-loving pricks.