Women in Game Development
So, if you’ve been to Play-Girlz.Com, you’ll notice that it is in fact not a porn site, but instead a gaming site being written by two wonderful ladies, Erin Harvey and Ingrid Diaz. They are a little crazy, yes, but they have a lot of information out there about different games and all the news stuff that can be associated with games. You may have noticed them talking about women’s roles in gaming and how being a gamer is a primarily male dominated thing. Well, if you think playing games is a primarily male thing, think of how many women game developers there are out there! There has to be like 3. Or maybe some more, but for the most part, game development is a very male dominated career. Heck, computer development of any type is primarily male.
To be fair to our sisters out there, because I am a sister, I’m going to talk a little about Women in Game Development (WIG), a website dedicated for women who are interested in game development and getting jobs with their fellow brothers in the game development field.
WIG is an offshoot of the highly coveted IGDA, a development site that is out there to help developers get into a position in the gaming industry. This website sets up events for networking out to gaming companies that may be looking for you to help them create their games. WIG specifically tries to help out women and they have a whole heck of a lot of conferences and get togethers that may help you out of you’re a woman looking to develop. They’re a great site, so go ahead and check them out, even if you are a guy. You might meet some hot programming game designer chick. Wouldn’t that be cool?
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