Wonderland: More On Women And Games There was me, the fabulous aleks krotoski (doing a talk), David Braben (he madeElite! omg!) and Martin Hollis (he made Goldeneye! omg!). http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/05/more_on_women_a.html
Extractions: Main I went to Cambridge Uni today, to be on a lunchtime panel at the Computer Lab , from where they run their compsci and programming courses (I think). It's right next to the Microsoft Research Lab, and I forgot to go sniff about. Anyway - subject of the day was why aren't there more women in the games industry? Cripes we had a good chat. There was me, the fabulous Aleks Krotoski (doing a talk), David Braben (he made Elite! omg!) and Martin Hollis (he made Goldeneye! omg!). We covered a ton of ground in the hour and a bit, unfortunately a bit too much to cover here. Briefly though, one slant on the whole shebang was that there is just no excuse for the lack of women in games. Programming, we accept, has a dearth of gals in the business, and programming courses countrywide usually have maybe 5-10% female students. Not good, not good. Much work to do there. But let's park that one a moment - the really weird one is why there is such a high number of games companies who don't have women on their books at all , in any roles.
Women In Games aleks krotoski has worked on the periphery of the games industry since 1999,first as a reviewer on Channel 4 s Bits and Thumb Bandits and later as a http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/eylesm/wig-website/conf-2004/speakers.html
Extractions: Sheri is the author of 'Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the Market'. She is currently Senior Game Designer for Sony Online Entertainment in Austin, Texas, USA. She is also co-chair for the 'Women in Game Development' Special Interest Group of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association). Before joining Sony Sheri ran her own development studio, Sirenia Software, and prior to that was Director of Product Development for Her Interactive. She has also worked as a writer and designer on the Ultima series of games for Origin Systems.
WomenGamers.Com - Because Women DO Play aleks krotoski of the UK s University of Surrey recently released a whitepaperdetailing the gaming habits and statistics associated with gaming women all http://www.womengamers.com/articles/internationalwomen.php
Extractions: International Female Demographics Article Discussion Forum Aleks Krotoski of the UK's University of Surrey recently released a whitepaper detailing the gaming habits and statistics associated with gaming women all over the world. She began his research by charting which countries housed the most women who play computer and console games. Active Female Gamers by Country Korea Women prefer mobile games and arcade games Japan USA UK (ELSPA) Aleks then researched which characteristics were preferred by women gamers in the games that they play: The next topic for research was the employment patterns of women in the gaming industry within the UK. The results of his survey were dismal:
WomenGamers.Com - Because Women DO Play aleks krotoski. Geek Woman What do you think were the highlights and accomplishmentsfrom last year? Inga Mark deserves credit for taking the initiative http://www.womengamers.com/articles/dundee.php
Extractions: by Geek Woman on 7/28/05 Article Discussion Forum Inga Paterson is a steering group member and one of the organizers of the Women in Games Conference at the University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, UK. WomenGamers.Com is a sponsor and supporter of the upcoming event. Inga lectures and teaches the BA (Hons) Computer Arts course at Abertay University. Conference? Inga: I'm a member of the Women in Games steering group and one of the organizers of the WiG 2005 conference, which is being hosted by the University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, UK. The University of Abertay was selected to host the conference in 2005 and Teeside University will host the 2006 event. The University of Abertay is well recognized for its BSc (Hons) Computer Games Technology and BA (Hons) Computer Arts courses and also for the Dare to be Digital competition. Geek Woman : Is the staff mostly women?
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Guardian Unlimited | Special Reports | Where Next? aleks krotoski reports Thursday August 19, 2004 The Guardian The Edinburgh Festivalseason has aleks krotoski sat on the EIGF04 steering committee. http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,1285657,00.html
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The Save Point » An Evening With Ms Krotoski Namely TVs aleks krotoski was giving a lecture about MMORPGs and their effectson our society to anyone willing to fork out £3 (£2 for students Nootch! http://www.thesavepoint.com/archive/20050129/an-evening-with-ms-krotoski/
Extractions: @import url( http://www.thesavepoint.com/wp-layout.css ); An Evening With Ms Krotoski and their effects on our society to anyone willing to fork out £3 (£2 for students - Nootch!) for the privalege. Needless to say, as the dedicated journalist that I am, I was more than willing to give up my Wednesday evening to go and report on said event for you, the dear readers of The Savepoint. FF style-menu T-shirt which is always a bonus! Posted by: George 29th January 2005 - 01:51 Link to this post Posted by Andrew 30th January 2005 - 16:30 Good to here Miss Alex is still doing the rounds (merp). Posted by George 31st January 2005 - 21:36 Normal entries will of course pop up if and when they occur to me. Posted by Ansible 29th January 2005 - 22:08 Bah, rambling. In short, kudos to Ms. Krotoski and her efforts and kudos to George for telling us about it. Posted by Atma 30th January 2005 - 22:36 RSS feed for comments on this post. Name Your Comment
Channel 4 Television - 4LATER aleks krotoski, Emily Booth and Emily NewtonDunn are devoting all their latenight activities to uncovering the latest in PC gaming and exploring the http://www.channel4.com/4later/bits.html
Extractions: Computer games - in a virtual world where only the nimble fingered survive and bad guys tote plasma cannons behind every corner the gorgeous Aleks, Emily and Emily B are essential power ups that no self respecting gamer should ever be without. Appearing weekly (well twice weekly actually, but more of that later) the Bits girls return to 4Later's screens with the gaming worlds latest tricks, tips, news and reviews - all delivered to you with more style, action and speed then a PlayStation 2 beat 'em up. Double Trouble Not content with dominating the late night gaming audience, Bits now comes in two delicious flavours: Bits (PC) in the old 4later slot, which deals with PC games, cool websites, hot gadgets, that kind of thing, and Bits (Console) which will be appearing on T4 (soon!) with the latest releases on Playstation, N64, Dreamcast etc. What's that? You like gaming on both the Playstation and the PC? THEN YOU MUST WATCH BOTH. Bits Online In order to deal with the vastly greater amount of info, there's also a new, better, bigger, Bits website on its way with more pictures of the girls, more reviews, more discussions, (and did we mention more pictures of the girls?) but it's not finished yet so for the moment you can still come here for basic contents of what's in each programme, plus details of what was in the last series including the funniest of competition entries and other "contributions".
Contact Intersection aleksandra krotoski, aleks is a social psychologist, journalist (The Guardian,Edge magazine, BBC Online), television writer and presenter as well as policy http://www.intersection.co.nz/contact.html
Extractions: Tanya Krzywinska Tanya Krzywinska is a Reader in Film and TV Studies at Brunel University, London, UK. Her research is driven by a longstanding interest in the roles that fantasy and imagination play in our lives. This is addressed specifically through consideration of fantasy genres and forms, including the design and infrastructure of screen-based imagined 'worlds'. Her work on popular and cult cinemas, videogames and imaginary worlds, and representations of magic and sex explores the formal techniques used in different types of audio-visual media to involve, engage and orchestrate the experience of viewers/players as well as considering how fantasy forms mediate broader socio-cultural matters. Email: tanya.krzywinska@brunel.ac.uk
Binary Zone Top 20 Babes! aleks krotoski Emily Newton Dunn. aleks krotoski Emily Newton Dunn. How couldI have an alltime top 20 babes list and not include these two gamer girls http://www.binaryzone.co.uk/babes.php
Extractions: Welcome to the Binary Zone Top 20 Babes section! The good news is this page has been updated at long last - the bad news is this is unfortunately the last ever time I'll be updating this page. I'm all grown up and responsible these days (yeah right!), with a house, busy job, lovely fiancé etc. But as I've been giving the Binary Zone site a complete revamp and overhaul I thought "What the heck!" and decided to update this page one last time. This update is slightly different however - it's more of my "Top Twenty Babes of All-Time", which features lovely ladies that have caught my roving attention in the past (from many years ago right up to some fairly recent additions) Please note that these are my PERSONAL choices and this page has been done just for fun. Hokay, that's enough waffling from me, let the eye-candy commence ... ! When I was much younger I absolutely *loved* blondes. Which is probably why I fell in love with Kim when I first saw her in the James Bond movie 'Never Say Never Again'. This caused some fine pictures (and a superb massive poster) of her to appear on my bedroom walls for many years! Other memorable movies which featured Kim are 'My Stepmother is an Alien', 'Batman' and her saucy flick '9½ Weeks' - which I also love because it features 'Arpeggiator', one of my fave Jean-Michel Jarre tracks! 19. Lara Croft
Vesterblog.dk » Blog Archive » The Conference According To Aleks aleks krotoski has typed up her thoughts on the first day of the Womens GameConference. She gives an interesting perspective between the European and the http://vesterblog.dk/2004/09/10/the-conference-according-to-aleks/
Extractions: @import url( http://vesterblog.dk/ordpressen/wp-content/themes/vesterblogdk/style.css ); Chicks and Joysticks is out in the open Aleks Krotoski has typed up her thoughts on the first day of the . She gives an interesting perspective between the European and the American contexts for women in game design. Conferences . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website vesterblog.dk is powered by WordPress The layout is a modification of the Kubrik theme by Michael Heilemann.
Vesterblog.dk » Conferences aleks krotoski has typed up her thoughts on the first day of the Womens GameConference. Id also be listening in on aleks krotoski presenting http://vesterblog.dk/category/conferences/
Extractions: @import url( http://vesterblog.dk/ordpressen/wp-content/themes/vesterblogdk/style.css ); Archive for the 'Conferences' Category Monday, August 15th, 2005 Posted in Conferences Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Conferences Monday, January 10th, 2005 Posted in Conferences Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004 Posted in Conferences Friday, October 8th, 2004 Posted in Conferences Saturday, September 11th, 2004 Aleks sums up her experiences in Texas, which seem to put a bit of a gloomy cloud over the future of game development:
Ludonauts Guardian Unlimited Games Blog aleks krotoski. Not a story, but just a good siteto check every so often, aleks krotoski at the Guardian games site, http://ludonauts.com/
Extractions: exploring ludic media 01:52:02, Categories: Features , 1190 words Recently, Bill Harris made a post regarding violence in videogames. Some of his comments focused on Grand Theft Auto in particular. While I agree with many of his points, I find his analysis of GTA troublesome. In particular, he refers to the violence inherent in the system as 'unnecessary' because they do not provide positive feedback to the player. That is, there is no point to killing random people because the player receives no in-game advantage as a result. He then goes on to conclude that since there is no possible game design reason behind the violence, the inclusion of the violence is purely a marketing ploy on the part of the developer. This seems like an unfortunate application of meta-gaming as design criticism. True, there is little advantage to killing of NPCs in (although this changes in San Andreas ) in the sense that your character receives no explicit benefit. However, this doesn't really account for any emotional pleasure that the player may receive as a result of engaging in murderous activities. I don't think it's so easy to dismiss this kind of visceral positive reaction simply because it doesn't represent a boon to the meta-game. Even if that reaction is regarded as antisocial or sociopathic, it does not mean that the design is useless or unnecessary. As evidence of this, I would cite the fact that many people will play hour after hour of
Play Games, Get Smarter!: USC Interactive Media Division Weblog Technology Review (04/07/05); krotoski, aleks. The incorporation of computergaming into the classroom is being encouraged by efforts and studies indicating http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/004217.html
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GDC Panel Charts Trajectory Of The Female Gamer - News At GameSpot aleks krotoski s work focused particularly on the UK, though she did include someinteresting international figures. In Japan, for instance, 69.2 percent of http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/10/news_6120206.html
Extractions: Latest News Rumor Control: PS3 for $299 and $485, VUG cuts Director's F.E.A.R.? Quake III Arena source code released Kor Hotels offers PlayStation 2, PSP Under Armour to appear in new Ghost Recon, Tiger Woods games ... Star Trek Online picks up series staffer Features Rumor Control: PS3 for $299 and $485, VUG cuts Director's F.E.A.R.? Also this week: The PSP gets punchy with Fight Night, and Johnny Moseley is up to his Trix again. Features Archive GameSpot Sports talks to second-year NASCAR driver Carl Edwards about his thoughts on racing games and NASCAR teamwork. SAN FRANCISCOClarinda Merripen of Cyberlore Studios, moderator of Wednesday's GDC panel titled "Counting Women: The Dollars and Cents Behind Female Gamers," kicked off the session by assuring the audience that there would be no conjecture from the panelists: Every statement put forth had to have been derived from research or study. Bold words, no doubt, but the temptation to offer possible explanations of the hard data seemed to have been too strong. Indeed, just before the session's conclusion Merripen herself hypothesized that the explanation for why women don't prefer games as strongly as men may be the result of men watching less television (as they shift to interactive entertainment), and television programs more aggressively recruiting female viewers.
OneSwitch.org.uk Guestbook My name is aleks krotoski and I am at the University of Surrey in the UK exploringthe experiences of MMOG players in wheelchairs. http://pub38.bravenet.com/guestbook/show.php?usernum=3246437131&cpv=2
Society Redefined : Women In Games : Getting Into Games Marketing games to a broader audience, a panel chaired by aleks krotoski, whichwill invite discussion on using fresh marketing approaches to encourage http://www.sociopranos.com/forums/thread-view.asp?threadid=576&posts=10
