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"I would love to feel like I'm a part of the gaming industry, but it's starting to feel as if you have to be on a list somewhere, as if it's a matter of where you live and who you know."
Junae Benne is a freelancer in games, struggling with a typical freelance problem – many freelancers have different skills, and often need to use different ones to earn money, which often makes it difficult to brand yourself. The gaming industry places a lot of value on deep expertise in a field, which can feel as if you have to pick a specialisation and stick with it – something Benne just doesn't want to do.
Following a degree in Media Communications and Broadcast Journalism from Northern Illinois University, Benne served as a contract community manager for studio SynapticSwitch, now SynaptixGames, before producing a weekly gaming news format for an online publication out of Colorado.
"I moved to Colorado and I was working for a video game marketing company. They used to put on conventions and they had like this little YouTube channel that I used to write for, even though I would have liked to do on-camera work, given my broadcast journalism experience," Benne says.
"People can't grasp that I am 15 different things because I just became what people needed me to be"
"I was learning about marketing, learning about community, learning about putting on events, while writing and interviewing people, where my background is and what I'm great at."
A fighting game enthusiast, Benne would eventually combine all of these skills to open her own gaming lounge strictly for fighting games.
"I learned how to build a community because fighting game players don't trust you. They do not trust you, and they want events tailor-made for their needs, they are very particular. I definitely learned from the toughest community there is," she says.
Benne put on regular tournaments and events in Chicago, while also running an after-school program for children.
"This is one of the things I'm most proud of," she says. "The city paid me and I could take all the kids that I wanted into my program, for free. They learned how to code, to like make video games, and I was teaching them how to think critically, how to not get bullied online, how to not fall into traps online, important internet literacy, basically."
This led to Benne being recruited by Xbox as a community development specialist, which entailed putting on events, social
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