Karn Bianco

No Games For Genocide

Campaign calling for an end to the game industry's complicity in genocide as part of the wider BDS movement.

About the Project #

No Games for Genocide is a group of game workers, activists, union organisers, and journalists who care about the games industry, Palestine, and all people living under the violence of colonialism and imperialism.

We want to expose and work to end the material and commercial ties between the games industry and the military industrial complex, with a particular focus on Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Development Process #

The initial "minimum viable product" requirements for the No Games for Genocide campaign website were a simple, static site with an embedded pledge form connected to an Airtable backend. I collaborated with another designer-developer who created the full UI design in Figma while I developed an initial implementation using Hugo.

With this baseline in place, my designer-developer colleague replaced the embedded form with a fully custom, styled and integrated pledge form complete with robust frontend and backend (via Netlify serverless functions) input validation.

A scheduled function is configured to periodically update the static site with the latest (manually vetted) pledge data by querying the Airtable API and generating an automatic Git commit which, upon push, automatically triggers a new Hugo build.

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