Antonia of WIG Jobs interviews Games Designer, Sophie Blakemore

Antonia Cullum of WIG Jobs interviews Games Designer, Sophie Blakemore

Sophie has been working in games for 10 years. She started as a tester but quickly rose to designer and has worked for companies such as Kuju, Creative Assembly and Ideaworks 3D. Sophie believes that opportunities for women in game design are increasing ‘As [...]

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More Women are needed in games. It’s official!

Zoe Castillo in Dreamfall, a rare example

New research, recently published in the journal New Media and Society, has shown how under-represented women are in video games.  The researchers looked at the top 150 games from March 2005 to February 2006 and discovered that 85% of the characters were male, with player-controlled characters being even [...]

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Women in Games (WIG) Jobs is born!

David Smith, MD of the DS Interactive group created this blog on Saturday 15th August 2009. He holds the vision and look forward to bringing this creation to life.

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