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Phillips and Silver Rain CEO and founder Abubaker Salim are speaking with us to promote the news that the upstart studio has signed a deal with Electronic Arts to have its first game featured in the EA Originals program.
Phillips answer about gut instinct is in regards to choosing EA as a partner over the multitude of other funding and publishing options available to independent studios, but similar sentiments were expressed by both Phillips and Salim for a number of questions, including their original decision to partner up on Silver Rain. Mel was on the same wavelength in seeing the potential of power that the games industry has in regards to telling stories and moving people, Salim says. It just felt natural.
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As 2020 draws to a close, many will reflect on 12 months defined by stress, upheaval, and the urgent need to confront some difficult truths about the way the games industry operates, and the myriad ways it can be a better and more inclusive place.
But just as that process of self-examination is necessary, so too is recognition for those already working to solve those problems. In this GI 100 series we will profile 100 individuals and organisations making progress in vital areas like diversity, accessibility, charity, mental health, progressive politics, lifting emerging markets, uniting communities, and more people whose stories can show us how this industry can be that better and more inclusive place.