I'd like to acknowledge the women working in this industry in various positions, and will do so in posting tweets/pictures of women who work in gaming.
Post whatever you find!
Post whatever you find!
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International Womens Day: Women in the Video Game Industry
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I'm also noticing a severe lack of women of color. Not to say there isn't any in these photos, but I cant help but notice it.
Here's to Centipede's programmer Dona Bailey
River Raid's creator Carol Shaw
and the mother of adventure games, Roberta Williams.
Among others.
Cause women have been working in games and helping to shape up this industry since the early days.
Yes, it's great that are some good female characters there but, there's a lot of important real women out there working in games that deserve recognition.
River Raid's creator Carol Shaw
and the mother of adventure games, Roberta Williams.
Among others.
Cause women have been working in games and helping to shape up this industry since the early days.
Yes, it's great that are some good female characters there but, there's a lot of important real women out there working in games that deserve recognition.
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Yeah, that especially goes for black women or black people in general. You see way more people of Asian descent.
Following my post in the other thread, I'd like to mention Keiko Erikawa.
Veronica Megler too
I was very familiar with the book. I had read it multiple times. I went through the book sequentially and tried to figure out how to extract the map, how to capture the characters, which puzzles I was capable of coding with the technology at the time, and just really did it linearly. What makes a story compelling, for me, is when the characters and the situations they're in connect with you in some deep way, and you begin to care. You become passionately interested in their lives and the choices they make, and the reasons for the choices they make.
The Hobbit – my adventure game – became a collection of characters who were each – I'm not sure I'd be so grand as to call it 'each living out their own lives', but each expressing their own character – and then those characters interacted in a particular way. We had the idea that the player was just another character. Just because the player isn't doing anything right now doesn't stop the other characters from playing the game, so the game would go off and play itself, even if you just sat there.
Back then, I was in way left-field. I was not developing games the way games get developed. I thought, 'If I wanted to represent the character of the Hobbit, or a troll, or Gandalf, what would that look like?' What set of behaviours would I create that would allow somebody to look at a character and say, "Yep, that's Gandalf and that's what Gandalf does!" even if Gandalf is in a situation he's never been before. The characters were built on a fairly short line of behaviours that were generically applied to any object that happened to show up. Gandalf's behaviours included: if there was another live animal in the room, saying something to it; picking up some random object in the room and putting it in his pocket; going someplace else; picking some random object from what he was carrying and dropping it somewhere, or giving it to some random animal that happened to be in the room, and then cycling back through. So it was a list of maybe 6, 8, 10 steps that he just continually cycled through.
I based the characters on those in the book, and then I just said, "You guys go off and you guys live your lives and do what you guys do, and see what happens next!" And I was like, "Wow, that's interesting." They are off living their life, and then suddenly a connection occurs – it inserts itself in your life where Gandalf runs into the room and he has a bag of stuff, but it's completely different to the set of stuff he was carrying last time he walked into the room – and that is how you know that that person's behaviour has been continuing even when you're not present.
Happy International Women's Day. I'd be remiss not to point out how the extremely talented Amy Hennig shaped the entire landscape of games narrative (certainly Sony's whole portfolio) with cinema-caliber experiences. Not to downplay the efforts of other talented women, just to highlight a personal inspiration.
Aside: Reading CDPR's "Ladies in RED" totally got that 80's prom song stuck in my head.
Aside: Reading CDPR's "Ladies in RED" totally got that 80's prom song stuck in my head.
Thanks, now this a good way to celebrate vs that other thread which was a race to post the most obscure/Japanese female character you can think of.
Kinda shocked to see youtube comments actually calling riot out.
Aya Kyogoku, director of Animal Crossing New Leaf and New Horizions:
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Article
How many other franchises - AAA ones at that - can claim a 50/50 gender dev team? I'm guessing not a lot.
Wiki Page
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How many other franchises - AAA ones at that - can claim a 50/50 gender dev team? I'm guessing not a lot.
Rieko Kodama has been with SEGA since the early days of the Master System, entering the industry in 1984, and has been part of directing/producing and character/world designs for some of their most iconic RPGs like Skies of Arcadia and Phantasy Star, as well as action/platformer games like Alex Kidd and Sonic the Hedgehog. Nowadays, she's been producing the 7th Dragon handheld RPG series as well as being the role of lead producer for SEGA AGES, which has been praised as creating the definitive versions of several classic SEGA games with accurate emulation and new features in every release, simultaneously preserving and enhancing gaming history. Last year she received the pioneer award from GDC and was also part of the interview series for SEGA's Mega Drive/Genesis Mini.
Phantasy Star brought a refined JRPG experience to the western world almost a full year before the original, then archaic feeling Dragon Quest did and is still one of SEGA's most enduring series with some form of release happening every console generation. As someone who would define the world of that series, as well as being the director of the most beloved game in its classic-era (Phantasy Star IV), as well as producer of Skies of Arcadia, still one of the most beloved classic JRPGs of all time, I feel like it's pretty easy to consider her one of gaming's greats.
Phantasy Star brought a refined JRPG experience to the western world almost a full year before the original, then archaic feeling Dragon Quest did and is still one of SEGA's most enduring series with some form of release happening every console generation. As someone who would define the world of that series, as well as being the director of the most beloved game in its classic-era (Phantasy Star IV), as well as producer of Skies of Arcadia, still one of the most beloved classic JRPGs of all time, I feel like it's pretty easy to consider her one of gaming's greats.
I think everyone knows Yuzo Koshiro for the soundtrack in the Streets of Rage series, but, also very important and mostly unknown is his sister, Ayano Koshiro, responsible for the art direction in Streets of Rage 2, ActRaiser and a few others. She also did some game design for those games.
Here's a good interview with her about SoR2: http://shmuplations.com/streetsofrage2/
Here's a good interview with her about SoR2: http://shmuplations.com/streetsofrage2/
I was going to post something similar but since you can get banned for the shittiest reasons, I decided to leave it. Glad someone else posted it.
How about some industry legends?
Muriel Tramis, designer of a series of well-received puzzle and adventure games at Coktel Vision in the 80s and 90s, including the wildly successful Gobliiins and Mewilo, set in her native Martinique.
Muriel Tramis, designer of a series of well-received puzzle and adventure games at Coktel Vision in the 80s and 90s, including the wildly successful Gobliiins and Mewilo, set in her native Martinique.
I've always appreciated Laura Shigihara for her musical work on the OG Plants vs Zombies.
She doesn't seem to have worked on a full soundtrack in a while, though she's apparently still around with a semi-active YouTube channel and apparently even worked on / provided vocals for a track in Deltarune
She doesn't seem to have worked on a full soundtrack in a while, though she's apparently still around with a semi-active YouTube channel and apparently even worked on / provided vocals for a track in Deltarune
She also sang Schala's vocals on Mitsuda's official Chrono Trigger/Chrono Cross Arranged Album (Sarah Àlainn did Kid's vocals on the same album)
Let's talk about great female composers! My favourites have to be the legendary Michiru Yamane (Castlevania SotN and many others), Michiko Naruke (Wild ARMs series), and Miki Higashino (Suikoden series):
This post is obnoxious and a form of thread-whining. There's plenty of room for both threads to co-exist.
Lena Raine
and
Manaka Kataoka
the women responsible for two of my favorite game soundtracks (Celeste and Zelda: Breath of the Wild respectively).
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Manaka Kataoka
the women responsible for two of my favorite game soundtracks (Celeste and Zelda: Breath of the Wild respectively).
Aya Kyogoku is the one who designed the New 3DS front/back cover shown in the image, if my memory recalls.
Also, I found this on Reddit...
This the equivalent of people saying black history month is the shortest month of the year...
Aya Kyogoku is the one who designed the New 3DS front/back cover shown in the image, if my memory recalls.
Also, I found this on Reddit...
A shout out to several women game developers at Mattel in the early '80s making Intellivision games.
Connie Goldman
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Julie Hoshizaki
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Monique Lujan-Bakerink
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Ji-Wen Tsao
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Peggi Decarli
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Minh Chou Tran
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Karen Nugent
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Connie Goldman
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Julie Hoshizaki
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Relevant book to this thread, for anyone interested!
Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play : Marie, Meagan: Amazon.ca: Books
Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play : Marie, Meagan: Amazon.ca: Books
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Article by Lyndsay Pearson, Executive Producer of The Sims:
https://uk.ign.com/articles/how-women-taught-me-to-love-and-build-games
https://uk.ign.com/articles/how-women-taught-me-to-love-and-build-games
I know it's late, but Midori Yuasa is the new General Manager of Capcom's eSports Business Division (likely Yoshinori Ono's replacement, who's now just Executive Producer).
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Yoshinori Ono will be Capcom's eSports Executive Producer from April 1st 2020 + other changes
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/news/html/e200306.html From the link: Notice of Resignation of a Director and Announcement of Personnel Changes Capcom Co., Ltd. announces the following director's resignation.We would also like to announce the following personnel changes for our corporate...
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