Comments on: A nerdygirl review of the Game Developers Conference

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:04:31 +0000

So, I guess the chances of me finding a date at the IGDA mixer are astronomically to my disadvantage. Doh!

By: gus

gus — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:47:24 +0000

Total agreement! Imagine being there the year I was, where the “digital art” competition consisted primarily of boobies.

Seriously? Next year I’m going to submit a rant to the rant panel. It will consist of a “time-to-ponies” review system which will be the inverse of Old Man Murray’s time-to-crate system. In which ponies=awesome. At which most games completely fail, and even WoW mostly fails because you don’t get a pony until level 30. And I will then tie this in to the overall gender-suck which is GDC. I haven’t quite figured out how that part will go yet. But I have figured out the pony part. Oh yes. I have figured out the pony part.

also? thanks for re-directing people to user observation videos. I wish like hell people actually realized how useful those are. cheers.

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:20:12 +0000

Agree. I think every woman I saw last year at GDC was a LL employee.

The Expo does rock, I really enjoyed many of the demos, and I learned that I could emigrate to Canada if I chose to, as they need QA Engineers. It was a good thing to know in case McCain won.

By: Carisse

Carisse — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:40:40 +0000

Erica, I had to laugh at the escalator moment. I’m a theological librarian, and, like you, I am accustomed to a work setting and professional library meetings where men and women are almost equally represented. Once I was invited to give a presentation at a conservative theological society meeting, and had the same gender shock that you report here.