Erin Robinson Swink of Ivy Games talks about climate change.
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The DeanBeat: How to get game developers to save the planet

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Erin Robinson Swink is a seasoned indie game developer and founder of Ivy Games, and she’s trying set the world on fire. But in a good way.

She’s a Phoenix-based neuroscientist-turned-game-creator and developer of games such as Gravity Ghost and Puzzle Bots. She’s worried about global warming. In a quiet but passionate voice, she gave a talk about it at the Gaming Insiders conference in San Francisco yesterday.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.