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20 | They/them | Failed writer and current political science student | I talk about the Megami Tensei, Metaphor, SW and Zelda series a lot. | Creativly empty atm. Trying to be more present. Still in the depths of eastern europe somerandomidi17.straw.page

Watching Star Wars The Bad Batch and its funny how Tech’s “defect” that makes him different is just autism. Whoops we cloned you wrong you are autistic now.

Many folks were leery about this week's announcement of a Geoff Keighley-backed grant to support games industry workers, given how The Game Awards Future Class ended. I appreciate those who shared their thoughts with me; despite misgivings, folks hope things turn out better this time.

But many people seized on Keighley’s participation, especially in light of his previous efforts to support games industry workers via The Game Awards Future Class, a program that began in 2020 and inducted its last class in 2023. In 2023, Future Class leadership and participants clashed over participants’ request that Keighley acknowledge Israel’s genocide in Gaza at that year's Awards, and subsequently over efforts by participants to improve the program’s offerings.  

The experience has left some people leery of another Keighley-backed initiative. “A program like [Nova], with this much money going behind it, can’t hurt,” one Future Class participant, whom Aftermath is granting anonymity due to fear of career repercussions, told Aftermath. “I just hope the people in charge succeed with the ideas they’ve cultivated and subsequently get the flowers they deserve, because Keighley didn’t deserve the flowers he so eagerly picked up for his attempt at bettering the industry through Future Class.”

"I hope… recipients of this program receive what they are promised, rather than becoming a cheap bit of good press for Mr. Keighley,” said another Future Class participant, whom Aftermath is granting anonymity over career concerns.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 4d ago

Former Game Awards Future Class members skeptical of Geoff Keighley's involvement with grant program for game devs aftermath.site/future-class-n...

Geoff Keighley at the 2025 Game Awards