Other People in the "Indie Games" scene

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•Ben Kuchera's introduction is at 13:25 in the moviewriter for Polygon.com Kuchera was a member of GameJournoPros, and is the center of many instances of shady journalism practices, including the Brad Wardell incident and the Zoe Quinn Scandal.On March 19, 2014, Ben Kuchera published an interview with Zoe Quinn that focused on the harassment she claims to have received from Wizardchan and overall portrayed her in a positive light. It was brought to the gaming community’s attention that Ben had been giving Zoe Quinn money via Patreon since January 6, 2014, which proves that he had covered Quinn while providing her regular monetary support, something that was not disclosed in the interview.In September 2014, Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart leaked GameJournoPros to the public, a mailing list comprised of many game journalists across every major gaming site at the time, including Kuchera. In a thread about the Zoe Quinn Scandal, Kuchera and Kyle Orland of Ars Technica attempted to pressure Greg Tito, then editor-in-chief of The Escapist, to remove the ongoing discussion thread on The Escapist's forums. Greg Tito defended the users ability to discuss the issue, so long as the users themselves neither harassed nor made threats towards anyone and followed the forums rules. Upon the leaking of the GameJournoPros leak, Kuchera further sent emails that seemed directly pointed at Greg Tito about the leak, calling it shameful.In November 2014, Former GameJournoPros member and leaker William Usher revealed a GameJournoPros email sent by Kuchera showing that despite claims made that Kuchera had been harassed for talking about ethics, Kuchera admitted privately, at least as of September 7th 2014, that he had "yet to receive a single message from an actual reader about any of this" and that he was "not convinced the people who play games or read our sites care."William Usher also released an article in November titled "#GamerGate: Ben Kuchera And The Life And Nepotism Of Game Journo Pros" in which he detailed some of Kuchera's ethical failings as a journalist, including his Sportsfriends conflict of interest, his role in the GameJournoPros, and the harassment of the @GameJournos twitter account.Kuchera has also admitted to taking work from another source without providing a citation and apologized for it later.•Colleen Macklin's introduction is at 12:53 in the movieAssociate Professor teaching in the Design and Technology and Transdisciplinary Design programs at Parsons the New School For Design(http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/) •Phoenix Perry's introduction is at 13:36 in the movieProject Liberation(http://phoenixperry.com/) •Nina Freeman's introduction is at 26:54 in the movieCode Liberation•Catt Small's introduction is at 45:09 in the movieCode Liberation(We Teach Women To Code Games) http://codeliberation.org/ •Tracy Fullerton's introduction is at 17:44 in the movieProfessor & Director of USC Game Innovation Lab ( http://interactive.usc.edu/game-innovation-lab/ •JP van Seventer's introduction is at 21:26 in the movieDutch Game Garden is "dé game-hotspot van Nederland en biedt een divers programma aan diensten voor beginnende en ervaren (games)bedrijven." Whatever that means.•Wiley Wiggins' introduction is at 34:00 in the movieFantastic Arcade http://fantasticfest.com/arcade •Kathryn Barrett's introduction is at 43:29 in the movieKids Learning Code ( http://learntocodewith.me/blog/ •Adriel Wallick's introduction is at 55:13 in the movieTrain Jam http://trainjam.com/