In a male dominated industry, some women have been proving that they deserve recognition as well. For those women in video games and the industry, their success has been as notable.
Here are six women that have been thriving in the video gaming industry.
1 Aurélie Débant
Aurélie is one of the designers for Child of Light, a role-playing game that possesses a lot of fairy tale influence. She has her own video game studio and before joining Ubisoft Montreal, worked as a lead designer on numerous concepts in France.
2 Elizabeth Sampat
Sampat works for a mobile game company, Strom8, and has developed How to be Happy, a simulation dating game. She is a strong advocate for making the gaming industry better for women and also designs tabletop games.
3 Kim Swift
Kim was hired right out of school and improved a game she had worked on into what is now Portal. She has worked on Left 4 Dead video games and was hired as a senior designer for Amazon Game Studios in 2014.
4 Brenda Romero
Brenda’s work in the gaming industry began in 1981. Her career took off when she became the lead designer on Wizardry and worked on Dungeons and Dragons with Atari. She is the co-founder of Loot Drop game development studio.
5 Robin Hunicke
One of the founders of Funomena, an independent game studio in San Francisco, Robin started her career as a lead designer for Nintendo Wii games, MySims and Boom Blox.
6 Carol Shaw
Carol is noted as the first female video game designer and is the behind Atari classics, including 3D Tic-Tac-Toe and River Raid. She is retired from the gaming industry, but her work with Activision remains momentous for women in gaming.
