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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. Number 1... by tygerstripes · · Score: 4, Funny

    The missus. Her stern insistence and, as a last resort, use of the step-ladder to reach the fuse-box is the only reason I still have a life, job, pulse etc when faced with [insert game].

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  2. Top 10 maybe by dalewj · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Top 10 makes sense, top 100 is a bit of digging for no reason... in my opinion. intersting thou.

    1. Re:Top 10 maybe by jeffmeden · · Score: 3, Insightful

      +1. Project managers? Consultants? It sounds like they struggled just to find 100 women with careers related to video games. Influential, to me, means that the person has a broad impact on the industry in general and not just on the project they work on. I doubt many these people could be named by anyone outside their company. The pics are suspect too, how many do you think came off of their MySpace page? It's not that I'm harsh on women in gaming, but the author probably just did this as a favor piece so that she can make 100 friends in the business.

  3. Jon Romero by kerp11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That John Romero chick is HOT

  4. missing: the one who is not only most important... by jimstapleton · · Score: 3, Insightful

    to gaming but computer science in general. I didn't see her in there. 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. She even made it work in three languages... Without her, the whole computer industry, let alone gaming, would have been set back years.

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  5. Roberta Williams? by El_Muerte_TDS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And besides that, wtf would influential in gaming mean? Every part considering gaming? In that case Hillary Cliton should also be on that list.

    1. Re:Roberta Williams? by spyrochaete · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The omission of Roberta Williams is ridiculous. She is one of the most influential people in the history of games, never mind video games, never mind women.

  6. Re:missing: the one who is not only most important by codefrog · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sounds like you meant (but didn't name) Grace Hopper, who (IIRC) was associated with the development of ADA.
    http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html

  7. Click print to see them all... by hansamurai · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Click print to view them all in one page. But seriously, where's Roberta Williams? Sure she's been retired from gaming for a few years, but she paved the way for women in the industry.

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  8. A salute to a pioneer by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    I, for one, would like to recognize videogame pioneer Wilma Rhomer, who in 1979 became the first woman ever to bitch at her boyfriend for neglecting her for videogames.

    -Eric

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  9. Best Roberta Williams Picture by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

    She's the one on the right. I kid you not. Bow-chicka-bow-ow! Ms. Williams? I'm here to fix your hot tub. Uh oh, looks like I'm gonna hafta lay some new pipe!

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