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Screen Australia welcomes Games Investment Manager Dakoda Barker

Screen Australia is pleased to announce Dakoda Barker has joined the Games team in the role of Games Investment Manager, reporting to Head of Online and Games, Lee Naimo.

Dakoda Barker

Dakoda is an educator, writer, consultant, and game developer. As a games writer and critic, his work has been published in a range of print and online publications. Dakoda has taught game design at several universities across Queensland and Victoria and has completed a doctoral thesis researching representations of chronic health conditions in videogames. Rise, one of several games developed as part of his doctoral research, won the Freeplay Microgame award in 2018. In 2020, he co-authored Games as Texts, an introductory guide to examining videogames through common textual analysis lenses. Dakoda is a former director of Represent Me, a not-for-profit that championed intersectionality in the games industry, advocated for and supported marginalised game developers, and provided a diverse slate of consulting services for game developers, ranging from large studios to solo practitioners.