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Video game composer, Kumi Tanioka in 2007 Robin Hunicke speaking at the 2018 Game Developers Conference Siobhan Reddy speaking at the 2019 Game Developers Conference. Women have been part of the video game industry since the 1960s. Mabel Addis of The Sumerian Game (1964) was the first writer of a video game and first female game designer. [126]
Sarkeesian initially planned to release the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series in 2012 but pushed it back explaining that the additional funding allowed her to expand the scope and scale of the project. The first video in the Tropes vs Women in Video Games series was released on March 7, 2013. [26]
Women are sometimes marginalized as "intruders", as it is assumed they do not play video games that aren't associated with female players such as the Sims, music video games or casual games. Conversely, insults towards men focus mainly on their alleged lack of manliness for playing "girl games" or disliking violent games. [ 4 ]
A 2008 Gallup poll indicated that men and women each make up half of all American video game players. [2] In 2014, women comprised 52% of video game players in the UK and 48% in Spain. [11] According to a 2008 study by the Pew Research Center, "fully 99% of boys and 94% of girls" play video games. [12]
Women who play online games are not only a little older, a little happier but they're also making whoopie more often than those who don't play games. Hel-lo Mrs. Fact: Women who play online games ...
As the video-game market grew more diverse, cultural critics became interested in issues of gender representation and identity in games. [171] [29] One prominent feminist critic of the representation of women in gaming is Anita Sarkeesian, [78] [79] whose Tropes vs. Women in Video Games project is devoted to female stereotypes in games. Her ...
Women in Games, formally Women in Games WIGJ is a UK-based community interest company which aims to recruit more women into the video gaming industry and to protect the interests of women in the industry. It was founded in 2009 and originally known as Women in Games Jobs (WIGJ); the initials are still part of its legal name.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is a YouTube video series created by Anita Sarkeesian examining gender representation in video games.The series was financed via crowdfunding, and came to widespread attention when its Kickstarter campaign triggered a wave of online harassment against Sarkeesian, [2] causing her to flee her home at one point.