Essential Worker

Essential Worker

Controls: Z (do action, accept), Arrow Keys (movement)

This is a game about a grocery store employee and their coworkers

Created in April – May 2020 by Andres Siles-Loayza and Grant Chinn
For the Gaming & Justice course at Georgetown University, taught by Amanda Phillips

Built with GB Studio

If you enjoyed our game, consider donating $ to a strike fund like this one: https://www.gofundme.com/f/wholefoodsmay1strikefund

Resources:

• https://libcom.org/library/wobblyism-revolutionary-unionism-today 
• https://labornotes.org/secrets/handouts 
• https://home.coworker.org/ 
• Links to a few current unions and worker movements:
  • New Yorker Union
  • Game Workers Unite
  • Whole Worker Twitter 
  • Trader Joe's Union Twitter
  • Target Workers Unite Twitter 
  • Microsoft Workers for Good Twitter

Work we drew on while building our game:

• Article about striking Instacart workers
• Article about Trader Joe's workers in Covid-19
• Op-ed from Amazon warehouse walkout organizer
• Everyday the same dream Game
• Design Justice Principles
• Values at Play Book
• Strike Lessons from the Last 20 Years