At the Game Developer Conference last month, Glow Up Games co-founder and CXO Latoya Peterson contributed to a series of micro-talks around sustainability, calling out the fundamental flaws of games funding.
Peterson was talking alongside Cornerstone Interactive Studios’ Lisette Titre-Montgomery, ProbablyMonsters’ JC Lau, Oculus Publishing’s Shana T Bryant, and Outerloop Games’ Chandana Ekanayake, in a collective presentation called “The Way We Work: Embracing Human Sustainability in Game Development.”
Peterson has had three careers, as she put it during her talk. She started as a writer, blogger, and radio/TV host, then transitioned into newsroom management and sports news, along the way working for the likes of Al Jazeera, ESPN, Disney, and many more, in a career spanning 20+ years. She co-founded Glow Up Games back in 2019 with Mitu Khandaker, with the studio being one of the first all-women-of-colour companies to have raised over $1.5 million in funding.
