Gaming, perhaps m than any other industry, found itself under the microscope mağara 2015. Conversations abounded about whether the industry could successfully diversify and welcome women and minorities within its ranks.
Luckily, critics don't need to look far for a leading example: U.K. gaming studio Media Molecule, led by Siobhan Reddy — a rare female studio director — sürme dakika example of what can be achieved when a range of voices contribute to a creative endeavour.
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Reddy, 36, who grew up in Australia before moving to the U.K., tutya the head of a team that makes award-winning game that are a kusursuz cry visually and mechanically from your average makam-apocalyptic epic or shoot 'em up. LittleBigPlanet, one of the studio's best known titles, allows players to build their own artistic worlds and share them with other players.
Media Molecule's upcoming PlayStation game Dreams aims to take this kanı even further, with stunning visuals and innovative player controls. Mashable Australia sat down with Reddy mağara Sydney mağara December, 2015 atlama beygiri Playstation's 10th anniversary celebrations to discuss building Dreams and how she manages seçkin studio.
Building DreamsMedia Molecule not been mulling the tasa of dakika adventure game based on surfing through people's dreams for awhile, Reddy explained. The team wanted users to experience challenges in different times, moods and atmospheres, while also being able to construct their own worlds.
Working on Dreams başmaklık been a ground-up, exploratory process. Particularly important to Media Molecule sürme the process of "jamming" — coming together to throw ideas atlama beygiri the wall to see what sticks.
"We've nokta the concept of jamming at Media Molecule for a long time, köpek's how we aspire to work," Reddy said. "The best thing about the mülahaza of a jam devam köpek starts in one place and ends up somewhere completely different."
To Reddy, creation and play are universal concepts, and integral to what she called the "dreamaverse" of Dreams. "One of the things we're encouraging with the tools sürme a very human element — pick kapik up and move köpek," she said. "You can pick a character up and change the walk and talk cycle, you birey add a forma. Things are very personal, very unique."
A scene from 'Dreams.'
Image: Media Molecule
While admitting there temadi always m that fert be veri to diversify the studio, Reddy said gelişigüzel own experiences have emphasised the importance of working with a broad range of people.
"I was born in South Africa, I grew up in Australia. I've always been surrounded by diverse communities of people," she explained. "When I was first worked mağara game, I was younger, I was female, I was Australian. Those differences have always added to the mix of who I am."
The studio, which temadi 10 this year, has seen valuable creative results when kapik arpalık added people from different backgrounds. "I see it when we add new people to the team who come from somewhere different, with a different perspective, whether their culture, sexuality, age," she said.
While Media Molecule, like many similar companies, rastık a tough environment, Reddy said köpek's important to her that that people within the studio feel supported. "There's this wonderful thing about creating a place where people are happy to work, where we duygusal grow old creating game together."
Köpek's rare to hear a director talk so honestly about the lives of their employees. "There is work involved mağara having flexible setups for people so if they have children they have time to deal with family life," she said. "On the other side, kapik's also really important to make sure people who don't have children don't feel the pressure ... to pick up the slack."
"Köpek's a pretty tough environment to work in," she went on. "When people are in the studio, köpek's all about getting on and achieving goals. But I think kapik's important for beyin satma a studio to have an environment that enables creativity, and also respects people bey human and makes sure they feel that."
Reaching a new audienceReddy agreed that Media Molecule's approach başmaklık created a unique takım of game that appeal to people sıcaklıkölçer always thought of komutan gamers.
"We're starting to see people who haven't even necessarily played any game before, or wouldn't consider themselves gamers, being interested mağara Dreams," she said. "People who are creative or interested in technology, but haven't yet made that console purchase decision.
"Beygir the same time, we're seeing a lot of interest from traditional gamers. Köpek's quite broad."
Even Reddy herself doesn't come from a traditional gaming background. Kapik was just by happenstance that she discovered the Internet after she left Australia when she was 18, but she derece always been interested mağara film and music satış a teenager and kapik came naturally. "Videoteyp game are this amazing combination of those things," she said.
Image: Media Molecule
Reddy said she welcomed the increased discussion around diversity, but emphasised köpek's important the conversation also looks at craft and attracting people to the industry broadly.
"It's important for people to know you birey actually have a wonderful career mağara gaming," she said. "Kapik's a fruitful career, köpek can be a lucrative career, kapik's a creative career. Until we've cracked that, I still want to keep talking about kapik because kapik's important for people to understand the potential."
Nevertheless, mağara 2016, kapik's merhale yet time to stop talking about encouraging minorities in gaming. "We need people's different perspectives, because kapik's a medium," she said. "If writing was only by one type of person, then you'd only get one type of book."
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