Monday, December 05, 2016
A New Scholarship Aims to Inspire More Female Game Designers
The Creators Project: The image of the teenage boy in a dark room playing shoot 'em up video games is an entrenched stereotype, yet studies now show that women enjoy video games nearly as much as guys do. But if there are so many girls playing games, why are there so few of them developing them? Females developers account for just 22% of the industry.
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This is a stellar initiative and completely reminds me of the computer science program I was accepted to the summer after my freshman year of high school. It was the same as this one, geared towards women in technology, with the only difference of mine being for younger girls to experience and have a way into the computer science field while this one is for upcoming professionals who just need that extra bit to make it big. I’ve personally always enjoyed video games, but have tended to find some of the more intense ones harder to relate to, and maybe with more women developing these games, that may not be the case anymore. One thing I am happy to hear is that NYU already has a higher percentage of women in their program than the industry does, which is a good indicator of how that number could be on an incline with these upcoming graduates.
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