Alayna Cole, Jessica Zammit

Gebundenes Buch

Cooperative Gaming

Diversity in the Games Industry and How to Cultivate Inclusion

Beschreibung

Cooperative Gaming provides context and practical advice regarding diversity in the games industry. It begins with a deep dive into research literature and the history of diversity in the games industry to provide context around what diversity is and why it is a topic worth considering. It looks at the different facets of diversity and games.

Autor

Dr. Alayna Cole is the managing director of Queerly Represent Me, a not-for-profit championing queer representation in games. Alayna is also a producer at Sledgehammer Games, co-chair of the IGDA LGBTQ+ special interest group, and an award-winning games journalist and game developer. She was featured on the 2016 and 2017 Develop Pacific 30 Under 30 lists and the 2017 and 2019 Develop Pacific Women in Games lists, and has received several other accolades in the industry. Jessica Zammit started writing in 2013 for Start Select Media and for the next five years she followed her interest in writing about representations of mental health, diversity, and particularly, sexuality in video games. Jessica has been speaking about diversity in games at conventions like PAX Australia since 2016 and has been featured on several other discussions in and around the topic of representation in games and games criticism. Along with her co-author, she is co-chair of the IGDA LGBTQ+ special interest group, and was featured on the 2018 Develop Pacific 30 Under 30 and Women in Games lists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9780367342807
• ISBN-10: 0367342804
• Artikelnr.: 69938677