"A few years ago when I was entering the U.S. border, the [customs] officer asked me what I do for a living. I told him, 'I'm a game designer.' The officer frowned at me and said, 'My son is addicted to video games and he's not studying. Why are you making things like this?'"whengathered the voices of a group of gaming professionals to speak about diversity, both within game storytelling and amongst creators themselves.
"Everyone brings a bit of their world into their work," says Jacinda Chew, studio art director at Insomniac Games, which is still riding the wave of success from 2018's "We should be striving to get the smartest, most innovative people into our studios," says Halley Gross, narrative lead at Naughty Dog, the game developer responsible for titles such as .
From the perspective of Mena Sato, director of business development at Japan Studio , there are a number of women already working in the industry, but the public may not realize it. "I think we have more women than ever before, but we need to do a better job at spotlighting the various talent and for ourselves to be a better advocate for women in gaming," she explains.
In response to a question about the benefit of inviting more women into the industry, Siobhan Reddy, studio director atMeanwhile Laila Shabir, founder and CEO of, an organization established in 2014 to encourage girls to pursue gaming careers in paths like design, content creation and engineering, notes that, "On a human level, everybody deserves a shot at their dreams."
Reddy, meanwhile, didn't have any video games during her childhood. "You don't need to have played games since you were a teeny child to be a games maker," she emphasizes. "The medium is so broad." At Naughty Dog, Gross works alongside a number of female developers including Ashley Swidowski, Alex Neonakis, Emilia Schatz, Soa Lee and, of course, Soria. "Their work is inspiring and is pushing the whole industry forward," Gross says.
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