Iwd 2020
International Women's Day 2020: Six women in gaming share how they got into the industry
Celebrating the women in our industry
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Women in Gaming: Freelance presenter and BBC host Julia Hardy on convincing mainstream media to take gaming seriously
"It's very frustrating when you know how popular gaming is"
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Women in Gaming: Girls' Games Lab director Caoimhe Roddy on why "companies need to start being more flexible and proactive"
"We need to focus a lot more on equity rather than equality"
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Women in Gaming: Why Kwalee's Verónica Miñano believes awareness needs to start at schools
"When I joined Kwalee, I was one of only two women in what was approximately a 20-person office."
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Women in Gaming: Sumo Digital's Lucy Smith discusses the allure of games design
"Anyone who has a strong work ethic and attitude can achieve anything"
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Women in Gaming: Kitfox Games' Victoria Tran on shifting from healthcare PR to the games industry
"I decided to just Google and email random people in fields I was interested in joining"
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Women in Gaming: Rooster Teeth’s Alanah Pearce on making the leap from Australian to US games media
"I wrote a paragraph in this old diary saying I was going to move to San Francisco and work for IGN"
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Jobs in Games: Kolibri's Chris Ling on how data can impact a game's development
"Analysis means providing insight and recommendations - not just a chart"
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Behaviour Interactive's Daniel Guertin on how to get a job in game design
"Once you’ve started, it's just a matter of pushing forward"
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Mag Interactive’s Violetta Palinder on how to get a job as a games artist
"I was always attracted to character design, environments and animation"
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Kwalee head of publishing Simon Prytherch on 30 years in the games industry
"With hypercasual it's raw, you can’t hide behind amazing graphics or big names"
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Jobs In Games: Square Enix's Lucy Shears on how to get a job as a market research analyst
"It’s awesome to be able to say I work for Square Enix"
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IronSource's Sandra Schneider on using ads to improve retention and monetisation
"Whenever I recruit someone today, the first thing I do is give them a long list of top games to play"
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A career as long as the games industry: Team 17's Max Everingham
All about the people
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Kiki Olofsson on building diversity and great art at Candy Crush Saga dev King
Dealing with the sweet and the sour
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Outplay's Emma Turner on the importance of HR for great company culture
Outplay HR head Emma Turner shares details of how she obtained her role
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How Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin got the gig
From film to games
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Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot
"My first job in the industry was a hodgepodge of lecturing on games art, indie development and contract work"
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Zynga senior director of product Heather Houston on 'treating your career as a product'
Making sense of an incredibly dynamic industry
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"Game design isn’t all about grand ideas and blue-sky visions of exciting new games"
“The devil is in the detail”
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Jobs in Games: Futureplay's Chris Wilson on going from food apps to marketing manager
"Though food tech and gaming are very different industries on the face of it, there are many similarities in the foundations of app marketing"
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Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist
"People seem to assume there's a hidden 'make art button' in the software we use and don't understand that it actually takes a lot of time and skill to develop good art"
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Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King
"Suddenly I’d gone from policing the streets of Kent to policing the mean streets of Stormwind as a game master for Blizzard"
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Jobs in Games: East Side Games' Elin Jonsson on the misconceptions of being a games producer
"I know how incredibly hard it is to run a studio, and I don’t take my current job for granted"
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Jobs in Games: Scopely’s Liz Liu on how to get a job as a people business partner
"Gaming is the convergence of art and science, where creative people work together to build experiences for human connection"
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Jobs in Games: Outplay Entertainment’s Riccardo Tramma on how to get a job as an engineer
"The advances in technology and the quality of the games have contributed to creating completely new professional fields of expertise"
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Jobs in Games: Next Games’ Matias Ärje on how to get a job as director of technology
"Purpose comes from getting the results of your work into the hands of millions of people"
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Jobs in Games: ZeptoLab’s Jorge Rosado on how to become a game designer
“I was naive enough to think that I would become a millionaire and would be able to afford a Ferrari with my very first game”
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Jobs in Games: CD Projekt Red’s Hollie Bennett on going from midwife to head of communications
"Rome wasn’t built in a day. It’s going to hurt. You're going to see rejections, you might not even see responses. That’s okay. It’s not going to happen overnight"
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Jobs in Games: Gameloft’s Hugues Ossart on organising international events and esports
"The most important thing in esports is keeping the player at the heart of the experience"
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Jobs in Games: Pocket Gems Alex Muscat on how to get a job as an art director
"It’s important to realise that the artists are the tools - not the software"
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Jobs in Games: Voodoo’s Wesley Clarke on how to get a job as a technical lead
"Finishing projects should be your goal"
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Jobs in Games: Eight Pixels Square VP Hugh Binns on co-founding a studio
"When we started Eight Pixels Square six years ago, the shooter genre on mobile was hugely under-represented"
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Jobs in Games: Future Games of London’s Elizabeth Sampat on being a creative director and the truth about the 'Idea Guy'
"Make games. Even if you can't do everything you need to do - find other people and make games with them"
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Jobs in Games: Ludia studio art manager Serge Mongeau on how to get a job creating art for games
"Your portfolio is your window to the world. You need to let the world know how you think"
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Jobs in Games: Florence composer Kevin Penkin on how to get a job creating music for games
"Music isn’t black magic! It’s just like any other craft where it takes hours and hours of (sometimes) pain-staking work to get what you want to say just right"
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Kate Edwards: "Be open-minded and explore the possibilities of your talents"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Ella Romanos: "I'm really inspired by people who forge their own paths through the industry and who help others"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Gamee CEO Bozena Rezab: "Just go for it, even if you've never worked in games before"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Grand Cru CFO Celine Pasula: "Don’t be scared of going after the job you really want"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Yokozuna Data CEO Africa Perianez on a career in machine learning and a company where half of the engineers and all the data scientists are women
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Dirtybit's Anette Ståløy: "Misconceptions usually come from a lack of knowledge and from people making assumptions"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Tamalaki owner Martine Spaans: "I wish I would have known that hard work is not rewarded when no one sees it"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Games UX specialist Celia Hodent: "We know that having good diversity and inclusivity on a team are key to being more successful"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Curve Digital's Buahin: "We still have a way to go to dispel assumptions that women don't play games"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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MiTale CEO Natasha Trygg: "Try everything that games development has to offer and do not be afraid to fail"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Kongregate CEO Emily Greer on a career in games: "I've found a tremendous amount of kindness, openness and fun"
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Jagex's Cassia Curran on an international career in biz dev
Profiling a few of the industry's stars to celebrate International Women's Day
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Jobs in Games: Sega Hardlight’s James Back on how to get a job as a director of product
"I think if I’d known how easy I’d find it to relate to everyone I’ve worked with over the past five years, I’d have looked for a job in games a lot sooner"
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Jobs in Games: Hutch's James Levick on how to get a job as a director of technology
"Be persistent and don’t worry if you get rejected - you’ll get there"