2.5ii Renee Wooten (Part 2 of 2) - Being A Woman in the Games Industry: Making Space for Everyone in Games
Game Production Community Podcast
English - July 05, 2020 19:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBArts Leisure Games game production game producer gaming project manager mobile game development video games product manager Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Part One of our Podcast Episode can be found here:
https://www.game-production.com/podcast/episode/49b730cf/25-game-production-interviews-renee-wooten-part-1-of-2-associate-producer-at-kingsisle
In Part Two we took a segment out of the chat and based an article around it:
https://www.game-production.com/post/making-space-for-everyone-in-games
It launches into the discussion quite suddenly! During this segment, we talk about:
00:00 Being a woman in the games industry
05:00 Resources out there to help with learning
06:40 Bias and advantage
10:20 Wanting to be understood is different from "wanting attention"
13:20 Safe spaces: what they are and how to create them
17:15 Spreading awareness and giving time to process
21:30 Leadership responsibilities
24:00 Intentions and shared experiences
28:30 Women in leadership
30:50 Unlearning
32:00 Be clumsy but learn
33:30 Final thoughts (for now)
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