List Of Women In The Video Game Industry

This is a list of notable women in the video game industry.

Notable women in the video game industry

* Mabel Addis wrote the mainframe game ''The Sumerian Game'' (1964), becoming the first female video game designer.
* Anna Anthropy, American video game designer who has worked on multiple indie games such as ''Mighty Jill Off'' and is the game designer in residence at the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media.
* Dona Bailey, American game programmer who, along with Ed Logg in 1981, created the arcade video game ''Centipede''.
* Laura Bailey, American voice actress
* Ellen Beeman, American fantasy and science fiction author, cofounder the industry group Women in Games International, and computer game designer/producer since the 1990s Since 2014, she has been a faculty member at DigiPen Institute of Technology. She is credited for development of over 40 video games, for publishers including Disney, Electronic Arts, Microprose, Microsoft, Monolith, Origin, and Sega.
* Debbie Bestwick, British entrepreneur, founder of Team17.
* Danielle Bunten Berry, American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game ''M.U.L.E.'' (one of the first influential multiplayer games), and 1984's '' The Seven Cities of Gold''. She was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Computer Game Developers Association.
* Connie Booth (business executive), American business executive as vice-president of Product Development at Sony Interactive Entertainment and advocate of many of SIE's first-party franchises since ''Crash Bandicoot''.
* Mattie Brice, American video game designer, critic, and industry activist.
* Ashly Burch, American voice actress
* Brie Code, former Ubisoft AI programming lead working on titles such as Child of Light, founder of TRU LUV, co-creator of #SelfCare, an Apple Best Of 2018.
* Lori Cole, American game designer and writer. She and her husband Corey Cole are best known for the ''Quest for Glory'' adventure/roleplaying game series from Sierra Online. Other games she's worked on include '' Mixed-Up Fairy Tales'' (1991), ''Shannara'' (1995), the School for Heroes web game, and the Kickstarter-funded '' Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption'' (2018).
* Christina "Phazero" Curlee, African-American game designer and researcher, featured at IndieCade, SAAM, and Eyeo festival Author o
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* Sarah Elmaleh, American voice actor and cofounder of the games conference gamedev.world
* Keiko Erikawa is a Japanese video game designer and co-founder of Koei. She formed Ruby Party team by only women and then the team developed and released '' Angelique'', the first Otome game, in 1994.信長から乙女ゲームまで… シブサワ･コウとその妻が語るコーエー立志伝 「世界初ばかりだとユーザーに怒られた（笑）」
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* Mary Flanagan, researcher
* Rebecca Ford, Canadian game developer and voice actress, serving as community manager for Digital Extremes' ''Warframe'' and colloquially known as "Space Mom".
* Tracy Fullerton, American game designer, educator and writer. Fullerton's work has received numerous industry honors.
* Emily Greer, cofounder and CEO of Kongregate.
* Jennifer Hale, voice actress best known for her work in video game franchises including ''Baldur's Gate'', ''Mass Effect'', ''Metroid Prime'', ''Metal Gear Solid'', ''Soulcalibur'', Spider-Man, ''BioShock Infinite'', '' Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness'', and '' Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic''. In 2013, she was recognized by Guinness World Records for "the most prolific videogame voice actor (female)"
* Rebecca Heineman, American video game designer and programmer known for her work on ''The Bard's Tale'', '' The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate'' and '' Myth III: The Wolf Age''. Heineman is also considered the first national video game champion.
* Amy Hennig, American video game director and script writer. Her writing creates include the ''Legacy of Kain'' series for Crystal Dynamics, and ''Jak and Daxter'' and ''Uncharted'' series for Naughty Dog.
* Jennifer Hepler, video game script writer best known for her work on BioWare's ''Dragon Age'' series.
* Miki Higashino, Japanese video game composer known for the ''Suikoden'' series.
* Robin Hunicke, producer of ''Journey'' and cofounder of Funomena.
* Marija Ilic, co-founder of Two Desperados - a Serbian game developer and President of the Board at Serbian Games Association. Featured as one of the "100 Game Changers" selected by gamesindusty.biz.
* Emiko Iwasaki, artist and general director best known for her work on the ''Guilty Gear'' series, and Girls2Pioneers ambassador.
* Jane Jensen, video game designer most known of the popular and critically acclaimed ''Gabriel Knight'' series of adventure games
* Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer, arranger and musician
* Junko Kawano, Japanese game designer, director, illustrator and writer best known as the co-creator of the ''Suikoden'' series and director of ''Shadow of Memories''.
* Heather Kelley, media artist and video game designer, most famous as the founder of Perfect Plum, a start-up specializing for software for women. She is also a co-founder of the Kokoromi experimental game collective.
* Rieko Kodama, artist, director, and producer known for her work on the ''Phantasy Star'' series and other Sega titles including ''Skies of Arcadia'' and the '' 7th Dragon'' series.
* Aya Kyogoku, manager at Nintendo EPD with leading roles in ''Animal Crossing'' series production since 2008
* Christine Love, Canadian video game developer.
* Van Mai (nee Tran), developer of '' Wabbit'' (1982), the first console video game to feature a female protagonist.
* Jessica Mak, game developer and musician, developed the games '' Everyday Shooter'' and '' Sound Shapes''.
* Cathryn Mataga, designed Atari 800 games for ''Synapse Software'' and worked on the original Neverwinter Nights MMO.
* Manami Matsumae, Japanese video game composer
* Carla Meninsky, video game designer during the early years of the Atari 2600
* Ikumi Nakamura, Japanese artist and director, formerly of Clover Studio, PlatinumGames, and Tango Gameworks, with credits including ''Ōkami'', ''Bayonetta'', and ''The Evil Within''.
* Zoë Quinn, developer of ''Depression Quest'' and subsequently a spokefigure against the harassment from the Gamergate controversy.
* Jade Raymond, Canadian video game executive, founder of Electronic Arts' Motive Studios, head of Visceral Games, and former managing director of Ubisoft Toronto
* Siobhan Reddy, studio director of Media Molecule, a video game development studio based in the United Kingdom, most famous for their debut title ''LittleBigPlanet''. She was named a BAFTA Fellowship in 2021.
* Brenda Romero, American game designer and developer notably of the ''Wizardry'' series. She has won several awards in her long career.
* Bonnie Ross, American video game developer and head of 343 Industries, the studio that manages the ''Halo'' video game franchise.
* Jehanne Rousseau, French video game creative director, co-founder and CEO of Spiders.
* Kellee Santiago, video game designer and producer. While studying at the USC Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California, Santiago produced the game ''Cloud'' which was developed by Jenova Chen and a team of students. After graduating, Santiago and Chen founded Thatgamecompany, and Santiago took on the role of president. Santiago left Thatgamecompany in 2012. She is a backer for the Indie Fund, a TED fellow, and the head of developer relations for OUYA.
* Anita Sarkeesian, founder of ''Feminist Frequency'' and ''Tropes vs. Women in Video Games''
*Cher Scarlett, American software engineer who worked at Blizzard Entertainment and known for her role in California Department of Fair Employment and Housing v. Activision Blizzard
* Emilia Schatz, American game designer best known for her work at Naughty Dog
* Kim "Geguri" Se-yeon, South Korean esport professional and first female player signed into the Overwatch League.
* Suzanne Seggerman, co-founder of Games for Change
* Carol Shaw, the first woman who was a full-time video game designer. She began as an Atari employee, designing and programming ''3-D Tic-Tac-Toe'' (1979) for the Atari 2600. Shaw later joined Activision where she designed ''Happy Trails'' for the Intellivision and ''River Raid'' for the Atari 800 and Atari 5200 for which she is most widely known. Additionally, she designed an unreleased ''Polo'' game in 1978 and worked on the game ''Super Breakout''.
* Kazuko Shibuya, Japanese video game artist known for her work with Square and Square Enix
* Yoko Shimomura, Japanese video game composer and pianist who has composed or contributed to nearly one hundred video game soundtracks.
* Tanya X. Short, American video game designer and founder of Kitfox Games, where she has worked on games such as '' Shattered Planet'' (2014) and ''Moon Hunters'' (2016). She co-founded Pixelles, an organisation that aims to address gender diversity in video game development.
* Joelle Silverio, American video game designer, software engineer, animator, and visual effects artist. Notably, the first African-American female game designer to drive design of a AAA game, with her work on ''Killing Floor 2'' for Tripwire Interactive. Silverio began her career with Hi-Rez Studios, working on ''Global Agenda

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