Join the world-first Game Girls gala day promoting game development as an exciting and creative career path for young women. Throughout this entertainment-packed day essential game industry detail is unpacked by established female game developers who discuss their experiences in this male-dominated industry and demonstrate their skills. Game Girls is designed to illustrate how women can find exciting and rewarding careers in the games industry as programmers, designers, artists and writers.
Game Girls is presented by ACMI as part of the Public Programs for Game On, the world’s largest exhibition dedicated to the history and future of video games
Tuesday 18 March 2008, 9.30am – 3.30pm (registration 9 – 9.20am) ACMI
Free > Bookings essential > Contact Sally (03) 8663 2447
Updates > http://www.acmi.net.au/gameon_game_girls.aspx
Check it out if you can ladies! Well worth it.
It’s going to take a major cultural change to get more women into the games industry from a development point of view. The blokey, macho, crap needs to be weeded out.. It makes it a very unfriendly and sometimes quite hostile environment not only to women but also gay men.
It’s only really been lip service so far in terms of attracting women to the industry.. Events like this, and the women’s lunch at the previous AGDC conferences – but until they can create a more well rounded working environment (and I don’t mean just more women in the workplace – but rather more respect for women in general) things will stay the way they are.