{"id":8,"date":"2005-12-02T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-12-02T08:00:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T15:00:44","slug":"grrlgamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"GrrlGamer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Math Champion and Professional Grilled Cheese Innovator Andrea Phillips recently wrote an article for Gamasutra about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/features\/20051129\/phillips_01.shtml\">representation of women in the gaming industry<\/a>. Additionally, it&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/11\/30\/190231&#038;tid=10\">Slashdotted<\/a>, which is just giddy-making.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s exciting and more than a little weird for me is getting a mention in the article, in the game developers section. I sent the link to my mom in e-mail yesterday, nearly adding a P.S. recommending that she print it out and stick it on the refrigerator door.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of very stressful weeks for me, you see,  capped this past Monday evening with being the victim of a hit and run on Belmont Ave. as I was coming home from the grocery store. When your car is totaled, there&#8217;s not much that can fix that except big piles of money, but this article sure put a dent (ha!) in the dark cloud that&#8217;s been hanging over my head recently.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The original team for the A.I. game was almost entirely male, but since then, the rolls of ARG development have grown to be studded with high-profile women: Brooke Thompson, Krystyn Wells, Jane McGonigal. At Mind Candy, our staff is roughly 30% women &#8212; and though the actual ARG production team varies in size, it&#8217;s been as much as twice that for some arcs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel like I am in fine, fine company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math Champion and Professional Grilled Cheese Innovator Andrea Phillips recently wrote an article for Gamasutra about the representation of women in the gaming industry. Additionally, it&#8217;s been Slashdotted, which is just giddy-making. What&#8217;s exciting and more than a little weird for me is getting a mention in the article, in the game developers section. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}