If only all of our dads could give us jobs like this!
Her father, Henk Rogers, was the video game developer who secured the rights to distribute Tetris on Video game consoles and began to base his businesses in the U.S.
read the acticle, & it’s literally advertising.
Nothing about empowering women into game leadership positions.
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I feel like “biographical” means something different than it used to.
Rogers noted, “It’s a Hollywood script, a movie. It’s not about history so a lot of [what’s in the movie] never happened.”
We need more people that care about games.
Ffs the latest prominent woman in gaming is the new Xbox CEO, who came from the AI industry.
Workers in gaming need to tick the “love video games” box before any others.
Puzzle game Tetris has…a company!? That seems unnecessary.
It exists purely to license the rights to Tetris.
And shut down any game that even remotely looks like Tetris.
One might even say… Puzzling.
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It is. It’s a rightsholder corporate entity, an IP vampire.
Well, fuck. You don’t need to make it sound cool!
Vampires are only cool looking. They’re still monsters. That’s why the only game where you aren’t hunting them is where you are biased in their favor by being one.
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As a woman, and a gamer, seeing more women in the industry would be nice, but I don’t really think having more women in leadership roles will draw more women into playing games.
The solution to drawing more women into games is to make quality products at a reasonable price; (by reasonable I mean, able to make a profit without gouging customers.) The solution is to end console exclusivity and release on all platforms. The solution is to allow their customers to own the game they purchase instead of trying to make them rent it. (These sorts of changes will draw in men, women, trans/non-binary from across the board.)
Plenty of games get released full of bugs that get fixed after release because the bean counters at the top are rushing release, or are meddling in content creation when their MBA gives them no practical experience in development, coding, art, music, or play testing. I’m a woman, and I’m not spending money on a buggy piece of shit.
Then there is the issue with day 1 DLC. Day one DLC is not DLC, it’s a fucking money grab designed to milk more income out of your customers. How about those micro-transactions? How about taking some fucking chances instead of releasing sequel after sequel. How many COD and BF games do we really need? I’m a woman, and I’m not interested in playing the same boring, rehashed garbage over and over. I’m pretty sure people in other demographics have similar views.
The solution to making good games is also not MOAR graphics; it doesn’t matter if the art is made by a male/female/non-binary person. Plenty of small studios release games with low/mid graphics and do really well. See Stardew Valley, Hades 1 & 2, hollow knight, terraria, slay the spire, don’t starve, mega bonk, ect.
The solution to making good games is understanding game theory, and the type of game you want to release. Games fall into general modalities. Some games could involve lots of collecting (pokemon,) beating hard enemies/bosses (dark souls,) telling a story (Clair Obscur: Expedition 33,) open world exploration (Fall-out 4.) Good games do 1-3 of these things really well. We’re getting to a place where we see more female or LGBT video game protagonists/characters. That inclusivity is great, but that doesn’t stop a game from being trash everywhere else. (Thank you Lara Croft for crawling so the rest of us could walk and run.) I’m not going to run out and buy a game with a female protagonist if the game play is trash.
The Tetris Company is a company that licenses tetris to 3rd parties, and occasionally releases rehashed versions of tetris. Nothing this company does is groundbreaking in anyway, other than trying to be an inclusive employer. (Kudos to them for recognizing the need for inclusivity in organizational hierarchy.) Per the article: Maya Rogers has been the CEO at Tetris since 2014. Her father, Henk Rogers, founded The Tetris Company with Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov back in 1996. Maya Rogers is a fucking nepo baby, so any hot take coming out of her mouth is kinda meaningless to me.
Such a well thought comment. I’d also add, just trying to build women centric won’t give as much rise in female gamers as would having Dad or Mom introduce kids into gaming.
As a male gamer I had my interests, but once the kids were old enough to hold a controller we’d get multiplayer family friendly titles. Now my daughters play online together in different provinces, and have built their own gaming PC
Appreciate you taking the time to read and consider it.
only 4% identified as transgender, non-binary or gender diverse
You need to have a comparison against the wider population when you show stats like this. Maybe that’s more than usual? When you say “22% of developers are women,” it’s clear that there are fewer women than the population in general. But we don’t need 50% of game developers being trans. (I mean, that might be fun to see but…)
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How would that work in practice though? Should the voices be scrambled or something and not all interviews are done online. If there’s an asshole who disregards a person because of their name or gender, then it will just happen at the interview, instead of during the resume.
Better having more people like Maya speak up and have more women game developers out there, showing they exist. It’s really about inspiring women to become game developers. But if you don’t see them, how can it inspire anyone?
With that said, I’m pretty sure the statistics are upward going.
Take a moment and think about what you just said. You presented a potential obstacle to implementing their idea and then a fairly accessible solution to that obstacle, and then concluded that it somehow can’t work, and then focused on ‘inspiring girls with the work of woman CEOs’ which suggests you think it is a better way to get women into game dev. However, only the most corporate-brained person would ever look at a CEO and feel inspired, and it wouldn’t be to make a game. Please don’t dismiss a real, practical measure, which could be implemented tomorrow and would make discrimination much more difficult, in favor a hand-wavey possible benefit via the nebulous space of ‘inspiration.’
Tetris has a CEO? Does she hang out with the President of Pong and the Mayor of Space Invaders?
Well, the King of Donkey Kong does exist…
No, but she does ensure the flow of cease and desist letters to lookalike games.
We need less agendas.
The solution to everything is not more women.
Tetris has a CEO?
And we care what they say when any and all recent (like, last 20 years) releases of Tetris have been money-grubbing slop?
Even going back to the 1980s, the best Tetris games were clones. The only good Tetris games were NES/GB where they couldn’t nickel and dime you, you paid once for the game and that was it, you could play it as much as you wanted to.
I dunno, Tetris Effect in VR is pretty dope. I’m still playing it.
The first time I played Tetris Effect in VR was like a religious experience. It blew my mind.
It’s also just a decent Tetris game, in my opinion.
Well you’ve got me imagining fitting a woman into a project like a Tetris piece.
i keep doing this but then at some point they all disappear
Tetris CEO?
Why does a video game have or even need a CEO? 🤨
So they can slap people with lawsuits, of course.
Short form of The Terri’s Company Inc.
I personally don’t care what gender or skin color someone has. We don’t need more Woman (or any other gender). This should not be a topic of discussion in my opinion, only skill should be.
To an extent, but 10 skilled diverse people will result in higher quality than 10 skilled same people.
So yes, care about skill, but also make sure you get some free innovation by having varied opinions from differing cultures, backgrounds, genders, etc.
To an extent, but 10 skilled diverse people will result in higher quality than 10 skilled same people.
I don’t believe that. If someone gets a job, because it has blonde hair or is woman, while someone else might fit better for the job and is doing better… then clearly something is wrong.
Nobody ever says to pick the worse fit candidate just because they are a woman or whatever. That is a bullshit talking point by small minded people.
Isn’t that a change that needs to be seen in general, not just gaming?
As a man in the trades, absolutely. I do my best to encourage women of any age to learn a skilled trade. There’s still a bit of a “boys club” sentiment, thankfully it’s starting to die out. There’s not enough people interested in doing the hard work involved in the trades to keep the skills going, even the sexists can’t afford to keep women out.
I have absolutely no issues working next to anyone, regardless of where they are on the gender/sexuality spectrums, all I ask is that they do their share and not be a douche-cannoe.
Maybe unsurprisingly the only 2 asks I have are too much for a lot of people.
Agreed but can we remove mtx, crushing deadlines and expectations, and board driven decisions?
