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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. [124]
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]
Pages in category "Female characters in video games" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 258 total.
Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is a YouTube video series created by Anita Sarkeesian examining gender representation in video games.The series was financed via crowdfunding, and came to widespread attention when its Kickstarter campaign triggered a wave of online harassment against Sarkeesian, [2] causing her to flee her home at one point.
Title card used in the Tropes vs Women videos. Sarkeesian initially planned to release the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series in 2012 but pushed it back explaining that the additional funding allowed her to expand the scope and scale of the project. The first video in the Tropes vs Women in Video Games series was released on March 7, 2013. [26]
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.
Pages in category "Women and video games" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Although there are a variety of gynoids across genres, this list excludes female cyborgs (e.g. Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager), non-humanoid robots (e.g. EVE from Wall-E), virtual female characters (Dot Matrix and women from the cartoon ReBoot, Simone from Simone, Samantha from Her), holograms (Hatsune Miku in concert, Cortana from Halo ...