An update on all things Rad Magpie from our Executive Director, Dana Steinhoff.
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Rad Magpie is the story of an organization that began with a big question and an explosion of energy, then iterated and evolved every year until it became something that is perhaps now unrecognizable. It is about following a thread to places unknown. It is about excitement, heartbreak, grief, hard decisions, and easy ones. It is about money. Flexible schedules and sleepless nights. Impact in the right and wrong places. It is about failure, success, and reinvention. This is its story.
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Have you ever found yourself pissed off after receiving an “urgent” email from a coworker on the weekend? You don’t want to work on the weekend, but you find yourself stuck uncomfortably in between three less-than-great options: do the work and add a little bit to that “resentment bank;” ignore the message, but feel unsure about your choice, and maybe experience preoccupying feelings of guilt, or negotiate a potentially tough conversation about your boundaries on the fly and field your coworker’s reaction. Of course, there are strategies for asserting boundaries even when they have not been stated ahead of time. But when it is done ahead of time, it is SO. MUCH. EASIER.
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Many of you have known us through different iterations. We’ve taught at summer coding camps for girls, developed a couple video game titles, held events at local schools, and ran three summers of Rad Studio. Our inspiration and mission has always been the same -- to support the voices of marginalized game developers -- but our manner of execution has evolved.
Each one of these programs has been rewarding, but we couldn’t shake the feeling that focusing our energy would have a bigger impact on our mission. We wanted to hone in.
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The Make a Wish Foundation of Vermont approached us in the winter months of 2019 to make someone’s dream to make a video game come true. Larger studios had rejected their ask: making a video game is expensive, as in, really freaking expensive. But everyone at Rad Magpie was energized by the idea and we were looking to get a release under our belt.
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Holy moly it’s certainly been a summer, hasn’t it?
How are you holding up?
This year has been a lot. For everyone. We, however, consider ourselves pretty lucky. We were able to transition entirely online very quickly which meant that we could still pay all of our employees (15 total through the summer) and fulfill all of our programmatic responsibilities. We transitioned our summer college mentorship program for underrepresented creators entirely online, which certainly meant a bit of overtime, but led to our strongest Summer yet:
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