Angie’s blog offers decent interviews with top women in the games industry and discusses the fair few decent points that we are wanting to raise at the moment.
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The game is a part of the ChoiceofGames brand and what is cool about it, as Alderman explains, allows the player the choice of being a Female, Jack-Aubrey-esq character and enables you to have the decision whether to captain a ship of an all-female crew or not. She says that the game is a ‘hilarious, but an innovative and fascinating way of tackling gender.’ A few days ago, I had a sudden flashback to the Develop Conference where a number of us were interviewed by BBC World Radio’s Colin Grant, and wondered whether those interviews had been written up or available to view yet. So I donned on my net gear and took a deep dive into the net. I wanted a nice and positive focus for the remainder of the week, moving away from the first article on the claims Activision has been denying about it’s ‘sale-ism’ against female game characters. My last thought when I had read that article was, we need more women in that industry, dammit, balacing out those scales [...] Sally Reynolds is a QA tester for Jagex, “I test the games to ensure that they are ready for release and also post release, if any issues have come up, I track them down and help the developer to sort them out. I love my job, I get to be a big kid!”. She left [...] A very successful networking lunch and conference took place in Brighton yesterday at the Develop conference with over 70 women attending to hear Sheri Graner-Ray give an inspirational keynote address. The conference started with David Smith reading out a message from Lynne Featherstone MP, Minister for Equalities. In the letter the Minister warned the industry [...] The collection of articles cover a good spectrum of well known and well debated issues on the projection, representation and statuses of women in the gaming world. They incorporate comprehensive academic and juicy analytical approaches, as well as interviews and discussions from ground-level operatives – girls who are life-long gamers, professors of women studies and women in the industry. GamingAngels.com CEO Trina Schwimmer is interviewed on KNBC LA 6 May 2010 and talks girls in gaming, the gaming industry and she also tries out Nintendo’s Photo Dojo. Melissa Miller, Senior Producer at 2K Games and Amanda Mackay of Gametrailers are interviewed by Geoff Keighley for Spike TV on women in gaming. This original clip was made in December 2007 and has had little viewing (112 views). I have represented this as it fits well into the content that we want to show [...] Diane Lagrange and Jen Bolton from ICO Partners (and previously NCSoft Europe) talk to Women in Games Jobs about how they got into games, why they feel women are under-represented in the games industry and how this is hopefully now changing. |
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