I've worked in games for a few years and had struggled to see what all the fuss was about, until I attended gamescom this year. I was utterly shocked and a little disgusted at at how some of my colleagues where treated. Not by spotty kids on the show floor but by supposed adults and professionals at the end of show party. Yes there where way more men than women there but it was no excuse for some of the teenage nonsense that was on display. One guy even grabbed a girls hand and 'jokingly' tried to shove it down his trousers, she hadn't even met him.
We are fortunate to work in or follow a creative industry that has been solely the product of innovations of the past 50 years. Its time to start showing it in our approaches to the production of , the way we conduct business in and the way we talk about the art form.
Dude, Gamescom is a shitstorm waiting to happen. I go every couple years (2008 and then this year in 2012, probably won't go again until 2014 or so) and nothing changes other than the location (Cologne is definitely a better location than Leipzig). It's only a trade show for the first two days or so, and even then the admission rules are loose as hell (E3 runs a tight ship compared to Gamescom). Once the doors open to the general public, GC goes straight to hell. People running through the hallways every morning when the doors open just to do some shitty-ass swag, people going nuts for Razer's booth babes.
Oh god, the Razer booth. Just thinking about it dude, I felt uncomfortable standing there with my few German/Austrian buddies. Imagine that, an American on vacation feeling awkward at a sleezy swag-tossing tight t-shirt competition. Impossible, right? Not at Gamescom.
PAX is positively tame compared to GC. I fucking love PAX. I'll go every year even if I'm broke and homeless. Especially if I'm broke and homeless.
I like the idea of gender equality, but it will never happen, because it isn't true, man and woman aren't equal. For example, Male and Female Brains Differ.
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