We're facing our fears this
#Orcatober
to highlight the horror of whale and dolphin captivity. 💀
Join us for a month of screams and laughs as we join our community in fundraising to make this generation of captive whales and dolphins the last. 🐳
⚠️ Streams will be 18+ with
We're super excited to announce
@RTGameCrowd
- The Drift King himself - has joined
@whalesorg
as an ambassador! 🐳💙
RTGame is a Twitch streamer, Youtuber known for playing popular games in unorthodox ways. With his amazing community, RT has raised over £140k for our
We love working with our Ambassador
@mayahiga
! Her passion for conservation education is so inspirational and her support has made an incredible impact on our work protecting whales and dolphins.
Read more here 👉
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype!!
Meet
@RTGameCrowd
, RT is an Irish variety streamer who will be supporting us here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation this
#JingleJam2023
.
If you'd like to help
@whalesorg
, sign up to join us here 👉
📢 APPLICATIONS OPEN!
👉Become a Pod Creator
👉Raise vital funds for whales, dolphins and ocean conservation
👉Receive awesome rewards
We welcome all content creators & streamers! Read more & apply here 👉
Let's make waves with games 🎮
The
@yogscast
and
@RTGameCrowd
are looking great as they're getting ready to go whale and dolphin watching with WDC's own Charlie Phillips (
@Dolphinchaz
)! 🐳
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 25!
Let's get hype for
#JingleJam2023
! To celebrate the amazing impact
@jinglejam
will have on our vital work ending whaling and hunting for good, we're giving away a key for Forever Skies.
To enter:
Follow
@gamesforwaves
&
@FlyForeverSkies
Retweet
We're currently on a trip in Scotland to visit our Scottish Dolphin Centre (
@Dolphinsighting
) with
@Ravsy_
and
@YogscastLalna
from
@yogscast
!
Huge thank you to the Yogscast for all of their amazing support to help us protect whales and dolphins 🐳💙
Meet our Whale Warrior -
@Ravsy_
!
We love Ravs' passion for whales, dolphins and nature and he has done so much for our vital work protecting whales, dolphins and their ocean homes!
Thank you, Ravs! 🐳🌊
📢GAMERS & STREAMERS!
Do you want to help protect whales, dolphins & the ocean? Then join us btwn 8th-15th June to celebrate
#WorldOceansDay
.
Stream your fave games & help us raise vital funds!
Head over to
@tiltify
to sign up now👉
#GamesForWavesWeek
🐳 Whales and dolphins are our biggest allies in the fight against the climate crisis
🌊 Join WDC for Jingle Jam and help us stop hunting & whaling for good so whales can live safe and free
👉 Sign up now:
📢
#GIVEAWAY
!
To celebrate our partnership with
@ActrioStudio
, we're giving away some keys for The Great Ocean on Quest and Steam! 🌊
To enter:
👉Follow
@GamesForWaves
and
@ActrioStudio
👉Retweet this post
👉Comment your preferred platform (Steam or Quest)
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 18!
Let's get hype for
#JingleJam2023
! To celebrate the amazing impact
@jinglejam
will have on our vital work ending whaling and hunting for good, we're giving away a key for Loddlenaut.
To enter:
Follow
@gamesforwaves
&
@WeAreSecretMode
Retweet
Comment
🥳
#JingleJam
Hype - DAY 8!
Today we have a special vid from Chris (
@WDC_CEO
) - Whale and Dolphin Conservation's (
@whalesorg
) chief executive. 💙
If you'd like to help us end whaling & hunting for good, register to stream for WDC this
#JingleJam2023
👉
We are so thrilled to have reached £250,000 for Whale and Dolphin Conservation (
@whalesorg
) for
#JingleJam2023
. To everyone partaking this year - THANK YOU. 💙🐳
You guys did it! We smashed our first
#GamesForWavesWeek
target on DAY 2 🤩
Thank you so much to all our streamers and to all who donated so far. Here's to the next 5 days - let's goooo 🐬🐳
This
#NationalVideoGamesDay
, we're so excited to announce our first Whale Warriors! 🛡️
Introducing..
@Meloncolliee
!
Melon has hosted multiple fundraising streams for
@whalesorg
, supporting our vital work protecting whales and dolphins across the globe.
We love Melon's
It's o-fish-ally
#WorldOceansDay
! 🌊 That means the start of the first ever
#GamesForWavesWeek
🥳
Check out all the amazing streamers supporting
@whalesorg
to protect 🐳 & 🐬 below.
Sign up to our
@tiltify
campaign to join games for waves week 2023 👉
Huge thanks to the amazing team from
@WeAreSecretMode
for all of their support for our vital work protecting whales and dolphins! 💙 They were volunteering at WDC's Scottish Dolphin Centre (
@Dolphinsighting
) last week, here's a picture of them with SDC Manager, Ali!
✨Introducing our first Games for Waves Pod Creators! ✨
We are so excited to welcome aboard 14 incredible streamers who will be helping us year-round to raise vital funds and awareness for our work protecting whales and dolphins! 🐳
Read more here 👉
We received our largest ever donation from our World Oceans Day Steam Sale! 🌊
🙌 45+ devs & publishers
🎮 100+ awesome games
🐳 All to support
@whalesorg
's vital conservation work
Thank you to all who supported, purchased and took part!
Read more 👉
Our third and final
#NationalVideoGamesDay
Whale Warrior announcement for today! 🛡️
Introducing...
@Ravsy_
!
Ravs has been an amazing supporter of WDC ever since he first visited our Scottish Dolphin Centre (
@dolphinsighting
) back in 2022! 💙🌊
We love Ravs' passion for
Wanna win a free game key?!
We’re at
@WASDlive_
, come find us and get a picture with Ollivander the orca.
👉 follow us on Twitter
👉 tweet your pic and tag us
@GamesForWaves
👉 for an extra entry, join our discord!
#WASD
We reached our stretch goal of £7500 last night! 🥳
Today is the last day of our first
#GamesForWavesWeek
and we are overwhelmed by the support and amazing content our community creators have made. Thank you to everyone who streamed, viewed and donated! ❤
Whilst the official
This is just so heartbreaking 💔
@jinglejam
will be funding our efforts to stop this cruel practice for good. Sign up now to support
@whalesorg
for
#JingleJam2023
and help us bring whaling to an end in Iceland and across the globe.
👉
Breaking - Whaling in Iceland has taken its first victim of the 2023 season.
Our partners from
@hardtoport
have documented that killing this female fin whale took at least two grenade harpoons. One harpoon hit the whale in the side, the other visible harpoon in the head.
OVER £320,000 RAISED 🤯
We are blown away by the incredible support from this year's
#JingleJam2023
!
We saw so many awesome supporters stream, game, bake, run, craft, paint and even cosplay for the whales and we loved every minute of it 😍 Thanks to you our urgent work to end
We are so incredibly excited to share that we've hit the milestone of £100,000 raised for
@whalesorg
during
#JingleJam2023
. 💙
This whaley awesome amount will have an amazing impact on our urgent work across the globe to end hunting and whaling for good. Huge thank you to
Hey
#WASD
attenders!
Come find us, take a pic with Ollivander the orca, upload to Twitter and tag
@GamesForWaves
to be in with a chance of winning a Dredge key*
*other keys available if you already own a copy of Dredge!
Join our Discord too for an additional entry!
🥳Our first ever Games For Waves Week raised over £8700 for
@whalesorg
.
A HUGE thank you to everyone who streamed, viewed, donated and participated in our first Games for Waves hosted event!
If you want to make waves with games, be sure to join our Discord Pod to keep
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 15!
We’ve been busy today packing up our gift boxes for our
#JingleJam2023
streamers!
Want to help us stop whaling and hunting for good? Register to stream for WDC and we’ll send you some goodies! 👉
HOLY MOLY! Our fin-tastic
#GamesForWaves
community have blown our first streaming week out of the water! Over the last 7 days you helped to raise a whopping £8645 for
@whalesorg
's conservation work protecting 🐋 & 🐬.
Thank you so much to all who streamed, donated, watched and
Here's our next Whale Warrior announcement for
#NationalVideoGamesDay
! 🛡️
Introducing...
@ImSeanBean_
!
Sean joined us for our first ever streaming event back in June and raised over £5k for
@whalesorg
, supporting our vital work protecting whales and dolphins across the globe!
We are blown away by the incredible support we received yesterday for day one of
#GamesForWavesWeek
! Thank you to our pod of streamers for raising over £3800 already - you guys are KRILLING IT!! 💙
There's 6 days left and it's not too late to join us! 👉
If you saw us at
@WASDlive_
and got a picture with Ollivander the Orca, be sure to
👉 Follow us
@GamesForWaves
👉 Upload your picture and tag us in it
To be in with the chance of winning a game key! We’ll be picking the winner tomorrow! 🎉
#WASD
Happy
#InternationalCharityDay
! We're so excited to be here with
@jinglejam
and 11 amazing charities to talk about
#JingleJam2023
. This year, money raised for
@whalesorg
will be funding our work to end hunting and whaling for good so whales and dolphins can live safe and free. 💙
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 16!
Dive into
@Loddlenaut
, clean up oceans, care for axolotl-like aliens! 🚀🌊
@WeAreSecretMode
will be donating a portion of Steam sales to
@whalesorg
to help us protect whales, dolphins and their ocean homes! 💙 BUY NOW 👉
📢 Hello
#gamedevs
! We're attending
@Developconf
! Come find us and learn how we can work together to make a positive impact on the ocean through games.
Sally & Gabby from
@whalesorg
's
#GamesForWaves
team will be in Brighton on the 11th, 12th and 13th July. See you there! 👋
🥳We're thrilled to announce that
@whalesorg
has partnered with
@ActrioStudio
on the ocean-exploration VR game The Great Ocean, and 20% of profits from the in-game dolphin adoptions will support WDC's conservation work 💙
Read more 👉
📢 WIN A GAME KEY!
Hey
#EGX2023
attenders! If you see us, come grab a picture with Ollivander the orca and upload it to Twitter (tag and follow us
@GamesForWaves
) to be in with the chance of winning a game key! 🥳🐋🌊
We’ve partnered with
@SeriousBrothers
on their climate crisis simulation game, Imagine Earth. For a whole week you can get 30% off, directly gift it to friends plus, 100% of net revenue will be donated to WDC. Save money, protect whales and dolphins and build a sustainable
📢Our updated schedule for
#GamesForWavesWeek
!
Tune into these awesome streams from our community who are fundraising to help protect whales and dolphins - including a stream from the Games For Waves team on Wednesday, 12pm EST/5pm BST! 🐳🐬
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 10!
Meet
@TwistyShape
, Twisty is an action-adventure streamer who will be supporting us here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation (
@whalesorg
) this
#JingleJam2023
.
If you'd like to help
@whalesorg
, sign up to join us here 👉
🤯 £150k milestone achieved! 🤯
We have been blown away by the incredible support so far during
#JingleJam2023
! Thank you to all who have streamed, donated, watched and otherwise took part in the festivities! 💙
10 days left of the Jingle Jam hype 👉
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 4!
Let's get hype for
#JingleJam2023
! To celebrate the amazing impact
@jinglejam
will have on our vital work ending whaling and hunting for good, we're giving away a key for After Us.
Play as Gaia, the Spirit of Life, and navigate stunning environments
Fundraise during
@JingleJam
for access to 70+ AMAZING games worth OVER £1000! 😱 Donations of £35 get this incredible collection as a reward. Register to fundraise for WDC, help end hunting & whaling! 👉
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 2!
Meet
@ChochyPlays
, Chochy is a UK based variety streamer who will be supporting us here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation (
@whalesorg
) this
#JingleJam2023
! 💙
If you'd like to help raise awareness and vital funds for our work to stop hunting and
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 9!
We're so excited for cosy ocean clean-up game
@Loddlenaut
, which will be releasing next week!
Check out
@SallyWDC
from the Games For Waves team playing the Loddlenaut demo 👉
Only 1 week to go until
#WorldOceansDay
! Don't forget to sign up to
#GamesForWavesWeek2023
- stream your fave games and help raise vital funds to protect whales, dolphins and their ocean home. 🌊 💙
Sign up now:
How awesome was the Games Collection this year for
#JingleJam2023
?
We wanted to say a huge thanks to all the game studios who included their game in the collection 💙 Did you get the collection? What are you playing from it? 👀
If you're a..
💙
#GamesDev
💙
#Streamer
or
#ContentCreator
💙 Gamer
💙 Passionate about the protection and conservation of whales, dolphins and their ocean home...
...then you're a perfect fit for our amazing community over on
@discord
! Join us here 👉
📢 APPLICATIONS CLOSING SOON
Have you applied to become a Games for Waves Pod Creator yet? We'll be going through applications and inviting creators soon, so make sure to apply by the 1st October!
💙 Become a Pod Creator
🌊 Raise vital funds for whales, dolphins and ocean
🥳
#JingleJam2023
hype!
Join us on Twitch at 2pm GMT for
@JingleJam
! We'll be playing
@loddlenaut
& fundraising for our work to end hunting and whaling for good.
Follow us to watch next week! 👉
We are so excited to share that we have hit 100 members in our
@discord
pod! THANK YOU to everyone for your support and joining our community.
Not in our pod yet? Join our community of gamers, streamers and developers who are working hard to protect whales, dolphins and their
Only one week to go until
#WorldOceansDay
🌊 From 8th June, you can get over 70 amazing games for an incredible discount on
@Steam
. Each purchase will support our conservation work to protect 🐳 & 🐬 across the globe.
So lovely to hear such nice things about Loddlenaut!
#DYK
that every Steam purchase donates a portion of profits to Whale and Dolphin Conservation? 💙
Check it out on Steam 👉
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with
@FFH_Games
and the post-apocalyptic survival game,
@flyforeverskies
!
Grab this awesome DLC decoration item for your airship, and 100% net revenue will be donated to
@whalesorg
💙
Read more and buy now:
📢 We're attending
@EGX
!
Devs and Content Creators, if you see us please come and say hello, and find out how you can make a positive impact with gaming! 💙🌊
#GamesForWaves
👋 Calling to all
#devs
! We're compiling our contact list for some upcoming events, comment below if you want to work together to make a positive impact on the ocean through games. 🐳😍
RT to help us get the word out!
That's the week over for
@GamesForWaves
!! 👏
Thank you so much to all for your generosity for a total of £5,555.55 raised for
@whalesorg
! 💸
Same again next year? 🐳
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 13!
Meet
@Essentiallyambs
, Amber is a UK based variety streamer who will be supporting us here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation (
@whalesorg
) this
#JingleJam2023
.
If you'd like to help
@whalesorg
, sign up to join us here 👉
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 1!
@JingleJam
is ONE MONTH AWAY! Here's how your support will impact WDC's (
@whalesorg
) vital work to end hunting & whaling for good. 🐋
There's still time to join us for
#JingleJam2023
, head over to 👉
It's just ONE HOUR TO GO until
#JingleJam2023
begins! 🤯 ✨
We are so excited for the most magical time of the year! Thank you to
@jinglejam
, the streamers and the viewers who are joining the Jingle Jam fun this year. You are helping WDC end hunting & whaling for good 💙 🐳
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 29!
Meet
@Zion_Reel
, Zion is a UK-based variety streamer who will be supporting us here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation this
#JingleJam2023
.
If you'd like to help
@whalesorg
, sign up to join us here 👉
📢Attention Pod Creators! The fundraising milestones are live now!
Embark on your first voyage with Harbour the humpback and earn awesome rewards 🤩 All funds raised through the Pod Creator programme will support our vital work protecting whales and dolphins.
Find the first
🥳
#JingleJam
Hype - DAY 7!
Meet
@vsabinana
, Sabi is a variety vtuber who will be supporting us here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation (
@whalesorg
) this Jingle Jam! 💙
If you'd like to help us in our work to stop hunting and whaling for good, head to
MEGA ANNOUNCEMENT!! (🧵 - it's a big day today!)
🐳 We've launched the Whale Warriors - our official ✨Ambassador Programme✨
Whale Warriors are a group of creators who go above and beyond for WDC to fight for the protection of whales, dolphins and their ocean homes.
🥳Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 6!
Introducing our WDC Ambassador James Schall (
@JSSecretMode
). Through his time at
@SEGA
and
@WeAreSecretMode
, James has been an incredible supporter of WDC (
@whalesorg
) for many many years, using his skill and expertise in the games industry to support
It's
#FactFriday
!
#DYK
that fin whales are the second biggest animals in the world AND one of the fastest swimmers of the large whales!? They're nicknamed the 'greyhounds of the sea' 😍
Fin whales have long, slender bodies that can grow up to a whopping 80 feet in length! 🤯
📢 We're live now!
Sally and Gabby from the GamesForWaves team are live now on Twitch playing some Loddlenaut! Huge thanks to
@WeAreSecretMode
for partnering with us on this cosy ocean cleanup game 💙
🥳 Jingle Jam Hype - DAY 20!
Meet
@nemetfox
, Nemet is a Canadian variety streamer who will be supporting us here at Whale and Dolphin Conservation (
@whalesorg
) this
#JingleJam2023
.
If you'd like to help
@whalesorg
, sign up to join us here 👉
So awesome to see how
@jinglejam
2022 helped our work in Scotland! This year
#JingleJam2023
will be funding our vital work to end whaling forever.
If you'd like to get involved, join us in our Discord 👉
Take a look at the incredible impact last year's
@jinglejam
funding has made on our education work in Scotland! Thank you to all who donated last year ❤️
Congratulations to our giveaway winner
@Ferntendo64
! You have won yourself a key for Dredge 🥳
Thank you to everyone who took part in our giveaway, it was wonderful to meet so many
#streamers
and
#contentcreators
at
#WASDLive
! We'll be running a similar giveaway for
#EGX
so be
Hi! 👋
We're Games for Waves -
@whaleorg
's flippin' awesome games community.
WDC work towards a world where every whale & dolphin is safe & free. Find out how you can get involved by partnering & streaming with us to become part of that impact.
👉
📢 Reminder!
We will be live at 2pm GMT / 9am EST playing some
@BSG_DREDGE
with WDC's Bycatch Coordinator
@BiancaCistrnino
! 💙
Join us as we talk all things gaming, WDC and fundraise for our vital work protecting whales and dolphins across the globe 👉
Charity event update for
@whalesorg
during
@GamesForWaves
! 🐳
We've now raised £4,109 total so far on Day 2! 💸
So many fantastic generous people around again, and the first use of Donation Matching on
@Tiltify
!
See you tomorrow as we go for Day 3 from 7PM BST! 👀
It's Empty the Tanks Day!
We'd love to see all tanks empty like this one in The Last of Us 2 (
@Naughty_Dog
). It doesn't have to take an apocalypse for this to happen - help us make this generation of captive🐳 & 🐬 the last.
#DontBuyATicket
#EndCaptivityForever
#EmptyTheTanks
We have a NEW hype emote available for our Jingle Jam streamers! 😍
This new emote fits so perfectly with our other Harby emotes made by the talented
@aenyah_
! Join our Discord pod to gain access to these fun emotes! 🐳
🌎
@whalesorg
's new report - 'Whales in hot water' - about the effects tht climate change has on 🐋&🐬 will launch tomorrow at
@COP28_UAE
We're so proud of our gaming community who funded this report via our World Ocean Day Steam sale! 💙🎮
Read more 👉
Check out the
#WorldOceansDay
@Steam
sale now! There's over 100 awesome games on discount, all supporting
@whalesorg
's vital conservation work to protect 🐳& 🐬
🌊The
#WorldOceansDay
@Steam
sale is LIVE! Head over now to grab some mega bargains and support our conservation work to protect 🐳 & 🐬 at the same time!
🎮 Buy now >
We are so overwhelmed & excited by how many streamers are fundraising for WDC (
@whalesorg
) this year for
#JingleJam2023
! Please take a look over our first schedule & tune in. 💙 🐳
It's not too late to register to join us for Jingle Jam 👉