PixAll -- New database aims to catalogue games industry diversity resources

14th April 2021: Annie Grudeva (Creative Director at Perpetual Games) has today launched PixAll - a database which aims to catalogue all of the resources available to help the games industry make workplaces (and games themselves) more diverse and inclusive.

https://www.pixall.org/

There is a growing need in the games industry to build both diverse teams and games, though many studios don't know where to start. PixALL is a resource to help studios and developers learn about a number of marginalized groups and people: of colour, with disabilities, with mental health issues, with different sexual orientations, of all genders, of all social classes and more!

Annie Grudeva, founder of PixAll, said: “PixAll was actually born of frustration. I noticed how often I got invited to diversity and inclusion panels but so rarely to game design ones. There is this unwritten rule that every marginalized person has to also be a diversity expert of their own, with no chance to opt out of being a representative of their own group and bear that additional labour as well as their job.

So I decided to create a database that all of us can share with non-marginalized people, hopefully answering the questions they’d ask us and letting us focus on the fun part - making and playing games!”