Take This Inc

Industry Consulting & Workshops: Through workshops and consulting engagements, we provide a culturally-informed approach to employee wellness & success for the game industry, addressing resilience and wellness, leadership and management through crisis, diversity, equity, and inclusion, community mental health, game content and design. We have partnered with Feminist Frequency to create the Culture Shift Project, a comprehensive approach to addressing gender-based harm in the game industry.

Research: Take This conducts game-informed, culturally competent, independent and partnership research projects on hate speech & online harassment in games, problematic play (game addiction) and other aspects of games. Take This strives to produce high-quality, novel research that addresses some of the greatest questions and challenges faced by those who play and make games, and to advance our understanding of how games can provide social benefit and become safer and more enjoyable spaces.

AFK Program:The AFK Room Program is our most public and longstanding service to the game community at conventions and expos, both in-person and online. More than a quiet space, the Take This AFK room and Discord server is a staffed, relaxed space for anyone who feels overwhelmed and needs a place to regain their calm. It is run by trained volunteers and clinicians, who offer education, resources, and a listening ear to convention attendees without providing therapeutictreatment.