Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Andy Wallace (Circumnavigators w/Juno Morrow, Death By Audio Arcade) and Ramsey Nasser (Selfie Deathmatch w/Kaho Abe, قلب programming language) are game designers and creative technologists known for their experimental art and community work. They co-founded the EMMA Technology cooperative, a newly formed 4-person coop doing freelance creative coding work in NYC. Ramsey and Andy talk through their reasons for investigating coops in the first place, their goals and values for structuring EMMA, and an overview of what it was like to get there as a legally recognized entity. Special attention is paid to the compensation and governance structure. This is an important topic given the pressing needs of workplace reform and labor alternatives in games & technology industries, how game designers old & new can shape the process of making games into something more equitable.
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/NYUGameCenter on Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
Andy Wallace (Circumnavigators w/Juno Morrow, Death By Audio Arcade) and Ramsey Nasser (Selfie Deathmatch w/Kaho Abe, قلب programming language) are game designers and creative technologists known for their experimental art and community work. They co-founded the EMMA Technology cooperative, a newly formed 4-person coop doing freelance creative coding work in NYC. Ramsey and Andy talk through their reasons for investigating coops in the first place, their goals and values for structuring EMMA, and an overview of what it was like to get there as a legally recognized entity. Special attention is paid to the compensation and governance structure. This is an important topic given the pressing needs of workplace reform and labor alternatives in games & technology industries, how game designers old & new can shape the process of making games into something more equitable.
This talk was streamed live at twitch.tv/NYUGameCenter on Thursday, April 28th, 2022
Splash music is Solace by Qix provided to us by Martin Nayeri qixx.bandcamp.com/releases
