Hi there and happy Pride Month everyone!
Enjoy the June Edition of the Kolibri Games Newsletter. This is where we review the events of the past weeks and keep you updated on recent company and product milestones.
This month offered a lot of opportunities for reflection. We took the international wave of support for the Black Lives Matter and related movements as a call to ourselves to think about how we as a company can take a stronger stand against racism, hatred and discrimination. In addition, this month’s Pride Month celebrations gave us an impulse to further diversity and inclusion at our company.
Earlier this month, Ubisoft pledged a donation of $100,000 to NAACP and Black Lives Matter. We are incredibly proud to be part of this family.
Here at Kolibri Games, we established a donation drive that will run throughout the rest of the year, to support national organizations that fight against racism and discrimination in Germany.
If you or your team would like to become active yourselves but don’t know where to start, we have compiled a list of books that have helped us wrap our head around issues relating to discrimination, diversity and inclusion throughout the past month. Find the list at the bottom of this newsletter.
We Appeared In
Our CTO Oliver appeared as a guest on the Datenbusiness Podcast with Dr. Bernard Sonnenschein. The two talked about the history of our company, our business model, as well as current data initiatives.
In addition, the Tagesspiegel portrayed the Kolibri Games founding and success story, based on an interview with our CEO Daniel.
The Kolibri Games Blog
Over on our blog, our CTO Oliver explained how we are unlocking Idle Miner Tycoon’s full potential by moving towards data-driven decision making with an initiative that we call “Data2020”.
We believe that adding a quantitative component to our decision-making processes will help us make the game even better and we are becoming even more player-centric, by further improving our game with information on the behavior of the millions of players who don’t directly reach out to us with feedback.
In the spirit of this new initiative, our Brand Designer Barry visualized three months worth of event mine data and revealed some interesting insights on how players interact with our game.
Product Updates
This month, our Idle Miner Tycoon Team worked hard on updates to the Mainland, a new Adventure Draw feature that allows players to win powerful prizes and implementing the new soccer-themed season: the Champion Season.
Kolibri Games Events
Our Director of Business Development Nate shared some wisdom at digital events and webinars this month.
Together with our friends from games:net berlinbrandenburg and DCMN, he spoke about how European game publishers can react to COVID-19.
In an event hosted by JoyPac, he shared insights into monetization strategies for hyper-casual games.
Open Positions
We still have several open positions in our Engineering and Data Teams. Have a look at the job descriptions here. So, if you know someone, who knows someone, who knows someone… you know the deal.
Recommended Reads
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Let Them See You: The Guide for Leveraging Your Diversity at Work, by Porter Braswell
Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion, by Tiffany Jana & Ashley Diaz Mejias
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series), by Audre Lorde
The Stonewall Reader, by New York Public Library
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, by Eric Cervini
Becoming Nicole: The inspiring story of transgender actor-activist Nicole Maines and her extraordinary family, by Amy Ellis Nutt