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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]
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]
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Brenda Laurel (born 1950) is an American interaction designer, video game designer, and researcher.She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", [1] a public speaker, and an academic.
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.
Video games featuring female protagonists (49 C, 2,257 P) Pages in category "Depictions of women in video games" This category contains only the following page.
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 ]