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游戏女玩家数量剧增 女性开发者依然寥寥

发布时间:2012-01-18 09:08:33 Tags:,,

作者:Hannah Morrison

电子游戏公司雇主表示,他们想要招聘更多的女性员工,但是求职者的数量却在下滑。

虽然女性游戏市场正在迅速成长,但负责创造和设计游戏的依然以男性居多。

研究显示,英国游戏行业女性从业者比例从2006年的12%下滑至2009年的4%。

来自游戏开发商Natural Motion的Torsten Reil说道:“令我感到烦扰的是,我们收到的女性求职信数量很少。现在,我们正在努力吸引更多女性进入公司。”

“女性设计师需求量增长”

诸如任天堂Wii之类的主机为游戏市场带来了更多的女性玩家,因此游戏公司需要考虑招募女性从事游戏的设计。

以往,女性多数从事PR和营销工作。

Ian Goodall受雇于专门从事游戏行业员工招募的Aardvark Swift。

他表示,许多公司都需要女性设计师。“工作室确实希望能够雇佣到更多的女性。他们认识到,满足女性和家庭娱乐诉求的游戏需要女性设计师来完成。怪物杀戮、爆炸和驾驶汽车等题材并不适合上述类型的游戏。”

woman & games(from blog.lib.umn.edu)

woman & games(from blog.lib.umn.edu)

“鲜为人知的就业机会”

虽然雇主有聘请更多女性开发者和程序员的想法,但真实情况似乎事与愿违。

Kaye Elling是少数在游戏行业内闻名遐迩的女性之一。

她的美术师和开发者生涯已历时13年,制作过《Bratz》和《英超足球经理》等游戏,她表示女性并没有意识到游戏领域创造的理想就业机会。

“女孩们或许都觉得这个行业不适合自己。她们认为,游戏都只适合男孩在卧室里玩。她们或许不知道这也是个很可行的职业,你可以获得稳定的收入,你可以得到提升,变得很成功,赚到可观的收入。”

Kaye现在正尝试通过自己的演讲和报告,说服更多年轻女性进入游戏行业。

然而,离目标的实现似乎还有很长的距离。

她在布拉德福德大学开设游戏课程,但每年能够看到的女学员寥寥无几。

她说道:“现在我们才尝试开始将她们招进工作室,这已为时过晚。我们应当从她们接受教育的时候就开始做好准备,然后逐步推进。”

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Video gaming industry ‘needs more female’ designers

Hannah Morrison

Video gaming bosses say they want to employ more women, but the number applying for jobs is falling.

While the female gaming market is growing fast, it’s still men who are creating and designing the games.

A study suggests the proportion of women working in UK gaming dropped from 12% in 2006 to 4% in 2009.

Torsten Reil from games developer Natural Motion said: “It bothers me, the number of applications from women we receive is very low. We’re trying pretty hard right now to attract more into the company.”

‘Women in demand’

Consoles like Nintendo’s Wii have brought more female players into the market and it makes sense for gaming companies to recruit women at the design stage.

Traditionally, female involvement has been mainly in PR and marketing roles.

Ian Goodall works for specialist games recruitment agency Aardvark Swift.

He says he’s being inundated with requests for female designers.

“The studios actually want to employ more women. They recognise they need that input to make games that appeal to women and to make games that appeal to families. It’s not healthy to have guys that want to kill things, blow things up and drive cars.”

‘Missed opportunities’

Despite the enthusiasm from employers to recruit more female developers and programmers, there still seems to be resistance.

Kaye Elling is one of the few women who has made a name for herself in the industry.

She worked as an artist and developer for 13 years on games like Bratz and Premier Manager and says women don’t realise the career opportunities in gaming.

“It’s perhaps not considered something that’s cool for girls to do. Girls think that games are all about spotty boys in the bedroom. They may not know that it is a viable career, something where you can get a steady pay cheque, where you can get promoted and become really successful and make a lot of money.”

Kaye has now turned her hand to lecturing in a bid to get more girls involved at a younger age.

However, there may still be a way to go.

She is only seeing a couple of women a year on the gaming courses she runs at the University of Bradford.

“By the time we were trying to recruit them in the office it was too late,” she says. “We needed to get out there when they were in their educational years and promote it.” (Source: BBC)


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