Women and video games: many gamers, few programmers!

• Carla Denise Castanho UnB
• Aurora Wang UnB
• Ingrid Santana UnB

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2018.3398

Abstract

In recent years, it has been observed that electronic games are no longer primarily male interest. However, the female presence in the videogame industry is still small. This work shares the results of a survey conducted with women who have some relationship with electronic games, whose objective is to identify the current scenario regarding the presence of women in the area of electronic game development in Brazil, with emphasis in the area of Programming of games.

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