Votes for Women is the first game from designer Tory Brown and follows on the heels of several games in the last few years that try to take major historical events that aren't wars to the tabletop.
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Women in Games has revealed a manifesto calling for equality and equity in the games industry. The organization's Women in Games Manifesto is a fourteen-point declaration promoting the end of gendered discrimination.
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This is the kind of scenario that users will encounter in Strong Together, a so-called serious game that researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are developing as an app to help women with advanced breast or gynecologic cancer gain self-advocacy skills to stand up for themselves and become more engaged in their cancer care.
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Within this, female gamers represent 48 per cent of the global mobile gaming market - which mirrors the population at large, with 21 per cent of adult mobile gamers being women aged 36 yrs+.
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The digital education game "In the Past" is an opportunity to travel to Georgia in the 19th and 20th centuries and get acquainted with the stories of unknown women. The game is dedicated to the themes of women, feminism and historical and cultural memory, and can be played in four languages.
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She grew up playing action and adventure video games on Atari, Commodore 64 and Nintendo DS, and has continued as an adult, using them as a "Motivational tool" in research and writing.
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"They're all white men, all 50 and older. I'm doing what I think is normal. I'm walking around and checking in on the other games, the same thing that they do when they're not in a game. But when I go to their games, they start saying, 'Oh, are you here to see your dad?'" says Ensteness in an interview with WIRED. "I was with my wargaming group, and they were exhausted from saying, 'No, she's in our gaming group. We play with her every week.' So everyone just started saying, 'Yes, she's my daughter.' I briefly had a whole group of adopted wargaming dads."
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The lead game designer at Zynga Game Network first fell in love with video games through Dungeons And Dragons, which catapulted her from gamer to programmer and designer. Higher education sees more women signing up for game design as a full-time course - a departure from its former status as a casual elective as an extra credit.
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