Media Room - In the News - 2007

Game-Designing Woman

The following is an excerpt of an article by Fern Shen
Originally published in the November/December issue of Smart Woman Magazine

“Women gamers are out there, and growing, and the industry watches its audience closely,” Steiner says. “Diversity on the development team helps make a stronger, more widely appealing game.”

But it’s early in the game, and it can be strange being the only woman in the room.

Katie Hirsch of BreakAway talks about meeting Big Huge CEO Brian Reynolds and describing herself as “the only girl programmer at BreakAway Games.”

“He told me, ‘You’re probably the only girl programmer in Maryland!’” she recalls.

Read more at Smart Woman Magazine


Photo of Katie Hirsch by Bryan Burris