Whitey Ford
01-26-2020, 02:38 PM
Yeah, and it's also hard as fuck to code videogames. Why don't you go 'diversify' the NBA and NFL first?
Long hours and ‘a pile of white dudes’: Annual survey looks at game industry working conditions
Some things haven’t changed: The industry, of course, remains male-dominated and “driven by young workers who tend to depart within a decade.” And when it comes to future tech it’s augmented rather than virtual reality that the industry is betting on.
Yet the industry is gradually becoming more diverse, both in who it employs and the kind of content it creates. In the current survey, 75% of participants identified as male and 21% as female, which is a shift from two years ago, when the industry was 80% male.
“We’re definitely moving in a more inclusive direction — slowly but surely,” said Katie Stern, the conference‘s general manager.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-24/game-developers-survey-work-conditions
Long hours and ‘a pile of white dudes’: Annual survey looks at game industry working conditions
Some things haven’t changed: The industry, of course, remains male-dominated and “driven by young workers who tend to depart within a decade.” And when it comes to future tech it’s augmented rather than virtual reality that the industry is betting on.
Yet the industry is gradually becoming more diverse, both in who it employs and the kind of content it creates. In the current survey, 75% of participants identified as male and 21% as female, which is a shift from two years ago, when the industry was 80% male.
“We’re definitely moving in a more inclusive direction — slowly but surely,” said Katie Stern, the conference‘s general manager.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-24/game-developers-survey-work-conditions