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Bad Reputation
One thing that really pains me in some cases is when I hear from people that work at places I have worked previously is that they chose to work there because I was or had. The reason it pains me is because those individuals I’ve spoken to have always said “oh, she worked there, it must have been a good place from an inclusion and diversity perspective”. Some of the places I have left, though,…
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Game dev is not “young”
Game dev is not “young”
Because We’re reaching a point where digital game development is at least 40 years and counting – 60 years if you count Spacewar! – I think it’s time to acknowledge that the games industry can no longer be considered to be young. An argument that I hear quite a bit when it comes to game development is that it is unreasonable to make demands on it, because it such a “young” industry. This pops up…
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Red Flags
We have problems in the games industry. Most of the time those problems can be attributed to men. Considering most companies have an 80/20 split between men and women, maybe it is not that weird. As a developer, if you find yourself in an interview and come across any of these situations, it might be worth listening to your gut a wee bit extra. You are the only woman in the room. This means that…
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The Industry is Failing Us
The Industry is Failing Us
At least to a certain extent. The individuals called out during #MeToo are pretty much unaffected, or seem to be unaffected, while the people who spoke up against them are being hauled into court for libel, or hauled into the court of public opinion, where they are dismantled in a much more efficient manner than a court of law could ever manage. The judgment in a court of law has an end date,…
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Don’t put the onus on margies
Don’t put the onus on margies
We’re celebrating Pride this month, and in the interest of pulling some weight and explaining how the work with inclusion and diversity affects marginalized people and how privileged people sometimes add to that burden, I want to talk about a situation that probably happens more often than you’d think. The recruitment talk. Whenever one of us – being a member of a marginalized group – bring up…
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Bye Bye BioWare
I wrote this on a flight from Edmonton to Amsterdam. I was on my way to a new job, back home to Sweden again. I’m leaving BioWare behind. There are reasons for this, and there’s no real reason why I can’t explain what happened and how it happened, but for now, I am choosing not to reveal too much publicly. Suffice to say that the people I worked with day to day were and still are beyond lovely,…
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Dysfunctional Companies
I did some digging lately into both project management and company management. One of the things I found that were seriously problematic, but also emblematic for the games industry is dysfunctional companies and dysfunctional teams. The hallmark of a dysfunctional company/ team are the following five traits. They’re a theory created by Patrick Lencioni. Lack of Trust There’s no trust between…
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The Day We Are Mediocre
The Day We Are Mediocre
I had dinner with a friend yesterday and he said something very memorable to me when we ate. He said ” I know we’re okay, because our studio is the first place I’ve run into mediocre women devs. Normally they’re outstanding.” While I understand that this sounds not that overwhelmingly great – you kind of want to work with outstanding developers – his point is this. We’re surrounded by mediocre…
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