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The 100 Most Influential Women in Gaming

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the clearing-things-up dept.

Ground Glass writes "Next Generation has posted a list of the 100 most influential women in the games industry. It's an exhaustive and nonsense-free take on a subject particularly important to the male-dominated world of videogames. From the article: 'A gender-inclusive approach to game design and marketing of games may ensure that most, if not all, considerations to producing games for myriad markets are not overlooked. Games are no longer produced for a niche market of players; they are produced for complex, over-lapping layers of demographically, geographically, socially and culturally-influenced consumer groups.'"

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  1. Re:missing: the one who is not only most important by UbuntuDupe · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If I remember correclty, she was a US Naval Officer, and won a bet by doing the "impossible", designing a language that could use semi human words, instead of the bytecode that everyone had punched in up until then.

    Yeah, I'm sure no one every did that before her, because it's *so* fucking hard to swap out bytecode for partial words and tell the compiler to convert.

    She even made it work in three languages...

    Yeah, mapping different code words to the same assembly code -- that takes fucking genius.

    Where would we be without women like her?

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    Apology to Ubuntu forum.
  2. Re:Which begs the question by Torgo's+Pizza · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They all happen to be the booth babes at E3. Sadly, with the recent changes to E3, the state of women in the industry is precarious to say the least.