2023 was a big year for OMG!
2023 was a big year for OMG!
We launched our Discord community to provide a safe space for LGBTQ+ industry professionals to chill, talk work, games, take part in networking events and competitions, meet like-minded individuals and much, much more!
We also launched our new bi-monthly newsletter, to keep you all updated on what we are up to for the professional games community, allys and and the industry as a whole.
We've further championed LGBTQ+ rights with two advocacy campaigns and followups.
Our events game has been particularly strong, with six in-person meetups, four online events, and four industry educational pieces.
There is a lot more, as you'll see below!
Enormous thanks to our sponsors: Supermassive Games, Rocksteady, Mojiworks, and nDreams. We couldn't achieve all this without your support.
Here are the numbers:
1 New Social Community Platform Launch - Discord!
1 New, bi-monthly OMG newsletter launch.
4 Sponsors: Supermassive Games, Rocksteady, Mojiworks, nDreams.
2 advocacy campaigns for LGBTQ+ rights and representation.
6 in person events including an alcohol free community engagement and networking event: Leamington Spa Social with OMG & Third Kind Games, Spill The Tea By the Sea with OMG at Develop sponsored by Supermassive, London Love with Pride, Trans Pride Brighton march, Rocksteady Games Summer Social, OMG x Supermassive Guildford Social.
4 online community events: Spring Mixer, Summer Quiz & Games Mixer, OMG Jackbox Night, Festive Quiz with prizes kindly supplied by our sponsors nDreams, Supermassive and Rocksteady Games.
4 industry educational pieces: nDreams Festival panel, Formation Games EDI presentation, Get Into Games Gayming Live '23 panel with The Multiplayer Group, Xbox DigiPride Article.
4 additional industry initiatives including support of the Gayming Awards, BAFTA Pride Twitter Takeover, Limit Break Mentorship partnership, UKIE’s Raise the Game.
172 people in our new Discord community.
2040 Twitter / X followers.
623 LinkedIn Followers.
848 Tweets.
1 charity partner.
4 New additions to the leadership team to increase diversity, representation and thought leadership.
If you'd like more detail on any of the above, or would like to know how you can help OMG support the LGBTQ+ games community, please click the 'contact or Join us' button at the top of the page and get in touch.
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