Female game developers are few and far between historically, but the times are changing. With the conversation on gender roles evolving, females are embracing and joining the gaming industry. Hopefully with them, the deception of women in video games can change too. Here are some noteworthy women in the gaming industry.
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Robin Hunicke: Game designer, producer, and developer Robin Hunicke served as executive producer on the award-winning game “Journey” and is the co-founder and CEO of video game studio Funomena. She actively advocates for diversity in game characters and creates games that are not based in violence. “Diversity in the games industry did not become a problem just in the last year, it has been a problem in our culture for a really long time. And it will not be solved in the next year, but every single day, doing the small things that come naturally to us. That’s how we can make a difference.”-Robin Hunicke
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Anita Sarkeesian
Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a feminist blog that shares videos and analysis on the culture of sexualization towards women in pop culture.
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Katherine ‘Mystik’ Gunn
Katherine “Mystik” Gunn is good at playing games, really good actually. She made $22,000 playing “Dead or Alive 4” and won the championship prize playing “Halo: Reach”. She thinks that a contribution to her win was her gender, and that her opponents didn’t take her seriously as a threat. You go girl!
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More information on females developers and gamers can be found at these links:
http://www.denofgeek.us/games/women-in-gaming/235076/25-awesome-women-in-gaming
http://fortune.com/2014/09/23/10-powerful-women-video-games/
http://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-be-a-woman-making-games-1292389459