[casual_games] Why We Need Women

[Dustin Clingman]

Are you kidding? That's my favorite pickup line! "Hey Pretty Lady, I can
make you a developer!"

All pseudo kidding aside, we actually do actively recruit women at Zeitgeist
Games. This year we had no fewer than two women work with us on programming
projects, one in tools development, the other in design. The dynamic of
having women involved in the team was very refreshing and imo, it brought a
lot to the process. 

As for our process, alot of these recruits come out of existing college
programs and have an expressed interest in development.

Dustin 

-----Original Message-----
From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of spocilujko at comcast.net
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:44 PM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] Why We Need Women

It's interesting about how he talks about actively recruiting women when
every once in awhile (and just recently in the last few weeks) the women's
list goes on talks about how DO you actively recruit women...

Does anyone here actually try to actively recruit female developers (or in
the article's case female non-developers to turn them into developers)?

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Brian Robbins" <brian-l at dubane.com>

> There's a great editorial by Vinny Carella up on Gamezebo today

> entitled "Why We Need Women"

> http://www.gamezebo.com/2007/01/why_we_need_women.html

> 

> I'd love to know what people think of this. Is Vinny right, or is he

> way off target?

> 

> -- 

> Brian Robbins

> Executive Producer and Gaming Evangelist

> Fuel Industries - www.fuelgames.com

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