What Out Making Games does

Out Making Games (OMG) is a UK-registered Community Interest Company (Out Making Games CIC, registration number 12915414) headquartered in London, dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ professionals working in the games industry. Its stated mission is to create a more inclusive and diverse gaming landscape through programs, partnerships, events, education, and advocacy, spanning Europe and the UK. The organization is led by Director and Chair James Dodd, with Robin Gray identified as a co-founder.

OMG's core offerings are organized around four pillars: a monitored Discord community that serves as a year-round safe space for LGBTQ+ gaming professionals; in-person events and meetups ranging from studio visits and Pride marches to industry gatherings such as Develop Brighton, including alcohol-free social formats; advocacy and partnership work, notably with BAFTA Games on Pride-month social campaigns and opposition to LGBTQ+ censorship in games; and a newsletter plus Insights blog for ongoing community and editorial engagement. The technology footprint is intentionally lightweight — a Discord server, a Slack community (outmakinggames.slack.com), and a Squarespace-hosted website — with no proprietary software products or AI components disclosed.

As a non-profit, OMG's revenue model centers on individual donations and corporate sponsorship, with sponsorship opportunities promoted via a dedicated sponsors page; pricing is not publicly disclosed and the community itself is free to join. The organization has been recognized with the Inclusive Awards 2024 in the Innovation/R&D category and holds proud-membership and strategic-partner status with UKIE, including its Raise the Game diversity initiative. Operating geographies are explicitly the UK and Europe, and the organization's current scale is small (1–10 employees) with no disclosed funding rounds or revenue figures.

Name

Out Making Games

Legal name

Out Making Games CIC

Website

https://outmaking.games

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Out Making Games is a London-based non-profit Community Interest Company that builds and supports a Discord community, in-person events, and advocacy programs for LGBTQ+ professionals working in the UK and European games industry.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Gaming Industry Diversity Advocacy

NAICS

Other Amusement and Recreation Industries (7139)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Communications & Voice/Chat Platforms (Discord-like, in-game comms) (MPAFAIAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Community Safety, Moderation & Trust Tools (UGC moderation, anti-toxicity) (MPAFAIAJ)

Keywords

• LGBTQ+ gaming community
• Gaming industry advocacy
• Non-profit community building
• Professional networking events
• Diversity and inclusion advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Sponsorship: As a non-profit organization, OMG relies on donations from individuals and sponsorship from companies seeking to support LGBTQ+ advocacy and mental health awareness in the gaming industry.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Out Making Games (OMG) is a UK-registered non-profit Community Interest Company that operates a monitored Discord-based community, in-person events and meetups, advocacy campaigns, and an email newsletter to support LGBTQ+ professionals working in the games industry across Europe and the UK. Its work centres on four pillars: Community Building, Events & Meet-Ups, Advocacy & Partnerships, and Education, all aimed at fostering a safer, more inclusive gaming landscape.

Product overview

Out Making Games (OMG) is a non-profit organization offering a community-focused service portfolio rather than a commercial product platform. The core offering consists of an Online Community (Discord-based) serving as a safe space for LGBTQ+ professionals in the gaming industry, supplemented by Events & Meet-ups (in-person gatherings ranging from studio visits to Pride marches), Advocacy & Partnerships (working with BAFTA Games and others on LGBTQ+ visibility), and Newsletter & Communications. These services work together to create a unified mission of empowering and uniting LGBTQ+ professionals in the games industry across Europe and the UK.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Online Community (Discord) A Discord-based online community that serves as a monitored, safe space for LGBTQ+ individuals working in the gaming industry. Members can connect, share, attend Q&As, and learn from like-minded professionals year-round.
• Events & Meet-ups In-person gatherings throughout the year, from game studio visits to Pride marches, including professional meetups at industry events like Develop Brighton and casual get-togethers in alcohol-free spaces. Intended for LGBTQ+ professionals and allies in the games industry.
• Advocacy & Partnerships Collaboration with organizations such as BAFTA Games and UKIE Raise the Game to champion LGBTQ+ visibility and inclusion in games, including social media campaigns, highlighting diverse talent, and advocating for the removal of anti-LGBTQ+ content in new games and remasters.
• Newsletter & Communications Email newsletter and marketing communications keeping subscribers informed about events, advocacy initiatives, community updates, and mental health awareness efforts.

Quantifiable outcome

• Provides safe, monitored community spaces for LGBTQ+ professionals year-round

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• BAFTA GamescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with BAFTA Games to champion LGBTQ+ visibility and inclusion in games. During Pride month and beyond, they take over social feeds, highlight diverse talent, and advocate for removing anti-LGBTQ+ content in new games and remasters.
• UKIE (Raise the Game)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership as Raise the Game initiative partner with UKIE, the games industry trade body. Raise the Game is a UK-wide initiative designed to make games more inclusive and diverse.
• nDreamminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSpotlighted nDream's event safety documentation as an essential resource for ensuring safety and inclusiveness of event locations.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• UKIE: UKIE is the UK games industry trade body and OMG's partner via the Raise the Game initiative. It is a broad incumbent in the UK gaming ecosystem, with DEI advocacy as one of many mandates and significant institutional reach that OMG benefits from.
• Games for Change: Games for Change is a broader social-impact organization using games and immersive media for good. It is a larger incumbent in adjacent social-impact-in-games territory, with overlapping advocacy themes but a much wider scope than OMG's LGBTQ+ niche.

Direct peers

• AbleGamers Foundation: AbleGamers is a US-based non-profit that advocates for disability inclusion in the gaming industry. It is structurally comparable to OMG as a community- and advocacy-driven non-profit serving an underrepresented group in games.
• Stack Up: Stack Up is a non-profit using gaming to support veterans and active-duty military, structurally analogous to OMG as a community-driven non-profit leveraging games as a vehicle for advocacy and mental health support for a specific population.
• Take This: Take This is a non-profit focused on mental health awareness and support within the gaming community. It directly overlaps with OMG's mental health pillar and shares the non-profit, community- and partnership-led operating model.
• Women in Games: Women in Games is a non-profit advocating for greater gender diversity in the gaming industry, the most direct structural analog to OMG's LGBTQ+ advocacy mission, with similar event programming, corporate partnerships, and industry visibility goals.

Regional players

• SpecialEffect: SpecialEffect is a UK-based charity that helps people with disabilities enjoy video games. It is a regional (UK) peer with a similar non-profit, gaming-focused advocacy model but serves a different underrepresented population.

Emerging players

• Gayming Magazine: Gayming Magazine is an LGBTQ+-focused gaming media outlet and community that overlaps with OMG's mission of increasing visibility and representation of queer people in games. It is a content-led rather than community-led peer.
• QGCon: QGCon (Queer Games Conference) is an annual event and network for LGBTQ+ game makers and players. It is thematically and mission-aligned with OMG as an LGBTQ+-in-games community builder, though its primary format is a conference rather than a year-round community.
• Rainbow Gamers: Rainbow Gamers is an LGBTQ+ gaming community and content platform that overlaps directly with OMG's mission. It is a smaller, content-driven peer that addresses the same queer-in-games audience.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OutMakingGames
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/out-making-games

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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