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Mabel Addis Mergardt (21 May 1912 – 13 August 2004) was an American writer, teacher and the first video game writer. She designed The Sumerian Game, programmed by William McKay, for the IBM 7090 in 1964, which inspired other kingdom management games such as Hamurabi from the early 1970s.
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]
Dona Bailey. Dona Bailey - American game programmer who, along with Ed Logg in 1981, created the arcade video game Centipede. [4] [5]Laura Bailey - American voice actress.; Ellen Beeman - American fantasy and science fiction author, cofounder the industry group Women in Games International, and computer game designer/producer since the 1990s. [6]
Jane Jensen (born January 28, 1963) is an American video game designer and author. She is the creator of the Gabriel Knight series of adventure games, and also co-founded Oberon Media and Pinkerton Road video game development companies. Jensen also writes under the name Eli Easton.
Named in O: The Oprah Magazine as one of 20 important women of 2010 on the "2010 O Power List" [28] 2008: Women in Games: Gamasutra 20: Named in the first Gamasutra 20, honoring 20 notable women working in video games. [29] 2008: South by Southwest Interactive Award for Activism: Awarded for World Without Oil [30] 2006: MIT Technology Review's ...
History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You to Know is a 2018 book by Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, illustrated by T.S. Abe, which profiles 25 women from history. [1] The subjects featured are from a diverse range of historical periods and locations, and include women who had a negative impact on the world.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:People in the video game industry. It includes video game industry people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Shaw was born in 1955 and was raised in Palo Alto, California. [2] Her father was a mechanical engineer and worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.In a 2011 interview, she said she did not like playing with dolls as a child but learned about model railroading from playing with her brother's set, a hobby she continued until college. [2]