TUCSON, Ariz. — The UFO mural by artist Ignacio Garcia at Speedway and Rosemont features a nod to the building’s former business, Copper Country Antiques, which featured the word ‘WHY’ painted on its east wall.Fangamer started as a software company in a spare apartment bedroom on Tucson’s east side.
“The fact that we put that time and energy into something so obscure, something about that really grabbed people’s attention,” said Young. The new office opened in 2020. It houses meeting and design spaces, as well as a studio for video production. Most of the building, however, belongs to the company’s warehouse and mail room.
“There’s a lot of under-served fan communities from like a lot of obscure indie games that they don’t really get a lot of merchandise for, or they don’t get a whole lot of high quality merchandise,” said Campos. “And they’re always like, ‘Oh man, Fangamer’s doing this. It’s so exciting.’” “I moved here and it was like, ‘I didn’t know anyone else.’ But it was so welcoming,” she said. “Some gaming circles it’s very much like ‘Boys’ Club.’ A lot of harassment issues, a lot of sexism, but that’s never, even when I was the only girl in the office, it was just like, ‘You’re one of us.’”“Amazon has been interested in handling our warehousing and mail room for a while,” Young revealed. “Like, they’ve been contacting us for years. And, like, no way. That’s ours. We want to be vertical.