Rate top gamesWomen in Gamedev and Their Games
Though the gaming industry is traditionally male, there are quite a few outstanding women there that develop, write and design video games. I think it's just unfair to know the game without celebrating the person behind it. So below you'll find the list of 10+ creative ladies who are responsible for the appearance of RPGs, shooters and adventures that players admire all over the world.
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Bonnie Ross is a video game developer, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Studios and also the head of 343 Industries, the subsidiary studio that manages the Halo video game franchise. Although she…
Roberta Williams is a game designer and a living legend of the entire industry. She created the graphic adventure genre with her King's Quest series. Williams is also a co-founder of Sierra On-Line, o…
In 1980 Dona Bailey was the only female programmer in Atari - a pioneer developer of arcade games. For two years there she stayed the only women in the department. That didn't prevent her from making …
Jane Jensen is well-known for creation of Gabriel Knight series of adventure games. She is an author and video game designer. She also writes books and novelizations of games. Though she has a varied …
Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir, responsible for the development of Star Wars Battlefront, started her career in the gaming industry in 2006. She decided to give up business development in retail and started …
Siobhan Reddy is a game producer and studio director of Media Molecule, the UK developing company, mostly known for LittleBigPlanet. Reddy herself was named one of the most influential women in the ga…
Sheri Graner Ray, the designer of Ultima, Star Wars Galaxies and Nancy Drew, is known for her work on women's interests in the video game industry. She even wrote a book about it in 2004 - Gender Incl…
Now a part of the Facebook Social VR team, Lucy Bradshaw was a game developer that worked on SimCity, The Sims series and Spore in Maxis, subsidiary of Electronic Arts. She thinks that there should be…
Every Uncharted fan knows Amy Henning - the screenwriter and director of first three parts of the franchise. Henning, who started with developing of Legacy of Kain, was named one of the most influenti…
Kim Swift is a video game designer known for her work on Portal and Left4Dead. Last year she aslo joined EA to work on Star Wars Battlefront II. Swift is really very talented - Portal was based on her…
Brenda Romero, another video game designer, is focused more on sex in video games. Don't think that she only worked on Playboy - among her works, for example, is Wizardry and Dungeons and Dragons: Her…