Gamer girls : 25 women who built the video game industry / written by Mary Kenney ; illustrated by Salini Perera.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780762474561
- ISBN: 0762474564
- Physical Description: 1 volume : illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Philadelphia : Running Press Teens, 2022.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "Discover the women behind the video games we love--from the iconic games they created, the genres they invented, the studios and companies they built--and how they changed the industry forever. From classic games like Centipede and Solitaire to popular modern games like Final Fantasy, Uncharted, and Halo, this book explores the work and history of 25 influential women in the video game industry and how their contributions ultimately built and transformed the medium that we know today. Gamer Girls explores each woman's contributions to the industry, but also their inspirations and hardships as they worked to create the games that they wanted to play. Including smaller sidebars about other influential women, a glossary, additional resources page, and stunning profile and spot illustrations of influential pixel queens such as: Roberta Williams (creator of the adventure genre) * Mabel Addis Mergardt (the first person to write a video game) * Muriel Tramis (the French "knight" of video games) * Keiko Erikawa (the creator of the otome genre) * Yoko Shimomura (the composer for Street Fighter, Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts) * Rebecca Heineman (first national video game tournament champion) * Jade Raymond (builder of the modern game engine) * and many more"-- Provided by publisher. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 12-18 Running Press Kids. Grades 7-9 Running Press Kids. |
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Subject: | Women video game designers > Biography > Juvenile literature. Video games > Design > History > Juvenile literature. |
Genre: | Biographies. |
Available copies
- 11 of 12 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Killingly Library.
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- 0 current holds with 12 total copies.
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Killingly Library | YA/920 Ken (Text) | 34040143568240 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Gamer Girls : 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry
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Author Notes
Gamer Girls : 25 Women Who Built the Video Game Industry
Mary Kenney writes critically acclaimed video games, long-form non-fiction, essays, and short stories. She works at Insomniac Games, where she was on the writing team for Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart , and was a lead writer on Telltale's The Walking Dead series. Before making games, she studied in the game design master's program at New York University, and she teaches narrative design at Indiana University. She was an award-winning journalist with bylines in The New York Times , Salon, and Kotaku. When not writing or gaming, she can be found buried in a book, running a tabletop RPG, or trying to keep her forest of indoor plants alive.