Whose Fantasy Is It Anyway?Anastasia Salter

University of Central Florida

@anasalter

Women in the Video Games Industry

Programmers and Engineers: 5%

Artists and Animators: 9%

Game Designers: 13%

Producers: 22%

Audio Professionals: 9%

QA Testers: 12%

Business and Management: 21%

Gamasutra Salary Survey 2014

Gary Gygax: I will include roles for women “when a member of the opposite sex buys a copy of Dungeons & Dragons

Jon Peterson

https://medium.com/@increment/the-first-female-gamers-c784fbe3ff37#.wtnp22vuu

I would like to remind women wargamers that while they are fewer in numbers, they make equally effective generals. That war is a man's domain is disproven by the fact that its wellsprings are societal and outcome affects all, regardless of gender. That history belongs to men is disproven by the few accounts of great women that filtered down, even as recorded by male historians. Remember, of the three persons most feared by Rome, two were women (Cleopatra & Zenobia).

Linda D. Moscahttps://boardgamegeek.com/thread/390307/women-wargaming-35-years-hence

One of the earliest Dungeons & Dragons adventure modules, Palace of the Vampire Queen, was co-authored by Judy Kerestan back in 1976.

Consider that from the publication of Charles S. Roberts’s Tactics in 1954, it took over twenty years for Linda Mosca to receive the first credit as a female wargame designer; it took only a bit more than twenty months after the release of Dungeons & Dragons for Judy Kerestan to get a billing for fantasy role-playing game design.

Jon Peterson https://medium.com/@increment/the-first-female-gamers-c784fbe3ff37#.wtnp22vuu

http://wordfey.blogspot.com/2016/02/representation-in-d-players-handbook.html

The new Player's Handbook explicitly talks about the gender binary and gender fluidity. "Think about how your character does or does not conform to the broader culture's expectations of sex, gender, and sexual behavior," it reads. "You don't need to be confined to binary notions of sex and gender . . . You could also play a female character who presents herself as a man, a man who feels trapped in a female's body, or a bearded female dwarf who hates being mistaken for a male.“

Jonathan Tunehttps://www.vice.com/read/dungeons-and-dragons-has-caught-up-with-third-wave-feminism-827