PLAY LIKE A GIRL: CHALLENGES FOR WOMEN IN THE VIDEO GAME AND TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES

Marina Amores (Blissy)

Although the video game was originally thought of as a family home device, the truth is that this focus lasted for a very short time. Little by little, it became culturally established that the video game was an exclusive space for men, a refuge to which women were not invited because, according to the consensus, women could not be good programmers or creators because they had not developed an interest in the first place. technology or the consumption of video games. But did you know that women actually pioneered programming even though they didn't have the same access to education as men?

This book is divided into three main axes to address all the spheres in which women can relate to video games: as developers, as communicators and as players. We will talk about the workers and creators as well as the students, the press and the media that deal with the video game as well as the marketing and publicity that decides how to sell these cultural products and who to contact, to finally end up introducing ourselves into the community of players, with online harassment, prejudice towards female players, professionalism in esports and streaming .

In Play like a girl, the mechanisms and strategies of how women have been separated from the world of video games and technology are explained, but it also talks about everything we can do so that girls and young women feel their own again a space in which we all fit. We don't just have the opportunity to rebuild a broken system: we have an obligation and we can do it. So let's hit the Start button.

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