This author Liz Cooper has created 95 entries.

20 Aug

Gamers help fill a food insecurity gap in NYC August 2018

Being hungry in NYC can be even more desperate on Sundays, as most of the soup kitchens and meal services are closed on Sundays. We gathered at one of the few meal services opened on Sunday and helped prepare and service a meal to those who are food insecure. Our Gamers for Good helped prepare for the meal, serve the meal and then clean up. It was a full afternoon spent to honors those others who have a greater need.

06 Aug

G4G helps hungry families during critical summer months.

When the sun shines bright and the kiddos are out of school, local food banks struggle to get enough volunteers to help feed hungry families which have kids who might eat breakfast and lunch at school during the school year. Our volunteers worked alongside others across the Portland area to process over 13,000 pounds of food in 2.5 hours, that’s over 11,000 meals and just over 175 meals processed per person. We hope you will join our next service event or when...

31 Jul

Gamers for Good coast to coast service for August 2018

Aug 2018 marks a new landmark for Gamers for Good, we will be nationwide. With service in Austin and New York City, we have more reach than we ever have before. We are so excited to have service opportunities to offer gamers across the country, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin and New York City. Check the event calendar if you are looking to participate in any of these events. Also if you are willing to help us host an event local to you,...

08 May

G4G volunteers @ OC 2nd Harvest Food Bank May 2018

Taking the service train down to Orange County, this May we served in the Second Harvest Food Bank in Irvine, CA. Gamers gathered in the name of service for others and processed food donations to ready them for the families that needed them so badly. Never have we seen so many carrots, felt like we were grinding farming quests 🙂 ...

23 Apr

Gamers for Good volunteers at: SOLVE it Willamette River area clean up Earth-day Apr 2018

Gamers for Good welcomed many new volunteers this Earth Day out in Portland for some Williamete River area clean up. We gathered at an event organized by SOLVIT and Comcast Cares. We were assigned an urban area that ran parallel to the river and that had many storm drains that led right into the river. As we worked across our zone and filled our bags were gathered trash and waste, we build great bonds discussing projects and hobbies, food tastes and histories. It was...

23 Apr

Gamers for Good: 1st live play-test: Cat Burglar PIGsquad Drink n’ Draw APR 2018

Gamers for Good submitting Cat Burglar to be included in PIGsquads Drink n Draw 2018 indie game festival. We were lucky enough to be selected to be featured in an art battle, where everyone competed for 15 minutes to draw the best Cat Burglar fan art. There were lots of learns and cant wait to do our next player facing event. I captured a couple quick videos during the art jam section of the event. ...

12 Mar

Gamers for Good volunteers at: Oregon Foodbank, Portland office Mar 2018

March brought Gamers for Good’s second service in our new Portland area, and this trip took us to the Oregon Food Bank, Portland office. Our shift was a busy 4 hours of working together and accomplishing amazing amounts of food and coffee processing for the area’s hungry. As a shift, we were able to process over 46,000 pounds of food in just a few hours. It was an inside climate controlled environment that was friendly to help from all ages, so this...

12 Feb

Gamers for Good volunteers @ Friends of Trees Feb 2018

Moving up from service in SoCal, we were quickly reminded the Pacific NorthWest has all 4 seasons and right now it’s still winter. It was a brisk morning with a cold breeze. BRRRRR. We were really excited to do our first service project since the big move and this one did not let us down. It ended up being a beautiful day, we met some wonderful people and helped settle 11 trees into their new home in Vancouver neighborhoods. The party (hard)...

05 Feb

G4G volunteers with Heal the Bay at Hermosa Beach

Gamers took to the sand Sat Jan 27th to help clean up the shores of Hermosa Beach. With paper bags in hand, not plastic since a lot of what we are there to clean up is plastic. We worked alongside others from the local area to clean up a full mile of California coastline. It is always more fun to do service in the company of other gamers, maybe next time we’ll see you here. ...

29 Jan

Global Game Jam 2018 : “Transmission”

This past weekend thousands from around the globe gathered either local or remotely in one unified goal: To make games! Weather video game, board game, card game or somethign else related to all things gaming, you have 48 hours to bring something to life. Friday night we were at one of our local jam sites with Portland Indie Game  Squad (PIGSquad) at Art Institute of Portland. We all watched the keynote and waited for the theme reveal at the end” Transmission”! From...

24 Jan

Participate in Global Game Jam 2018!

This upcoming weekend Jan 26-28 Global Game Jam 2018 will be happening! The structure of a jam is usually that everyone gathers on Friday late afternoon, watches a short video keynote with advice from leading game developers, and then a secret theme is announced. All sites worldwide are then challenged to make games based on that same theme, with games to be completed by Sunday afternoon The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event (game creation) taking...

03 Jan

Gamers for Good transition

With the new year come lots of changes for Gamers for Good. First off, we relocated to WA,  right outside Portland. So we will be getting move involved with PIGsquad and the Portland dev community.We will be adding service opportunities this week so watch for those. We are also just 3 hours from Seattle, so we will be able to do more there for PAX too. We will have new activites starting soon with Gamer Hub, G4G Twitch channel and...