one of my friends pointed out that it seems devs of color are overqualified for the junior level roles they're hustling for and i was like

*stares in igf nominee with three talks under my belt and multiple indie games* yes absolutely

i get people asking me to mentor them and i'm just like "thanks but i'm not professionally qualified to mentor you because i'm still working on breaking in"

one day the games industry is going to have a real uncomfortable conversation about how many devs of color want industry jobs versus the number of studios i've applied to that don't have a single person of color on their company website