Episode 44: A Conversation with Women in Gaming
Nerdificent
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4.7 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Hello friends and welcome to another episode of Nerdificent. This week the gang is joined by Sam Maggs of Insomniac Games and Janel SantaCruz of Hyper RPG to discuss Women in the world of Video Games. Dani and Ify with help from Sam and Janel talk about their struggles of wanting to work and participate in the world of video games and nerd culture as a whole with toxic masculinity and gatekeeping being the main factors of stifling that desire. This episode we share the many avenues women have entered, evolved, and conquered the world of Video Games as well as ways you too can find and support people with similar dreams and goals. No matter your gender everyone can learn something on today’s episode of Nerdificent!
FOOTNOTES:
LifeWire: The Most Important Women in the History of Video Games
HeadStuff: A Brief History of the Female Representation in Video Games
Twine: an Open-Source Tool for Telling Interactive, Nonlinear Stories
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