Silicon Sisters
Riding on the wave of meeting successful female figures within the games industry recently (and also the strange and unrelenting urge to create headline titles out of classic pop songs), I was more than cheered up to find out about Silicon Sisters, a brand new games development company.
The Canadian company has been founded by Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch and Kirsten Forbes and has been set up up with a focus on creating games for a more female-centric audience. The company will be the first of its kind to be female owned and with an all-female design team; a good, solid step forwards to showcasing stronger female games roles.
What’s also a relief to know is that the company have no desire whatsoever to ‘pinkify’ games. According to the founders, the aim of the game (see what I did there?) is to create products that ’truly appeal to and resonate with the female audience’.
And I for one, am looking forward to seeing what kind of games will be produced – exciting times are ahead!
