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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]
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]
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]
McWilliams was listed as one of the Top Women in MMOs in 2010, [5] and was also one of the Gamasutra 20 for Women in Games. [6] She wrote a post-mortem of Free Realms that was published in the April 2010 Game Developer Magazine. [7] McWilliams had an A.B. in psychology from Vassar College and a J.D. from St. Louis University School of Law. [8]
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.
She worked as a secretary in a candy factory, and for several years as an associate in a women's clothing department of Kmart before retiring at the age of 55 in 1991. [ 2 ] Curry got into video games after her son taught her how to play the 1996 turn-based strategy video game Civilization II .
Theresa Lee Duncan was born in Lapeer, Michigan, to Donnie and Mary Duncan. [16] She lived with partner Jeremy Blake in New York during the nineties while working for an interactive agency, and in Los Angeles until 2007, after which Duncan and Blake moved to back to Manhattan.
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.