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Title: Blog - Saucy Saturdays: Amy Hennig, Creative Director at Naughty Dog
Post by: Felix on January 07, 2012, 10:32:19 PM
Post by: Felix on January 07, 2012, 10:32:19 PM
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Johanna Armstrong
http://geek.pikimal.com/2012/01/07/saucy-saturdays-amy-hennig-creative-director-at-naughty-dog/ (http://geek.pikimal.com/2012/01/07/saucy-saturdays-amy-hennig-creative-director-at-naughty-dog/)
This week on Saucy Saturdays we're going to take a look at one of the most influential women in the game industry. Can you guess who it is? Can you even name three female game designers? If you can, I'm impressed, but my guess is most of you can't. There are a lot of reasons for that, one of the biggest being that there aren't many women in the industry to begin with.
One of the goals for Saucy Saturday is to bring these women pioneers to light, to show you that women can be creative, they can handle themselves in the industry, and they can be badass. You probably aren't aware that some of the most popular games on the market only exist because women helped create them. So today, our honorary Lady Designer of the Month is Amy Hennig: writer and director for some of the most successful Naughty Dog games.
...One of her most poignant notes on gender, however, comes from her response to a question about writing male characters as a female:
I don't think it's any different, honestly. Actually, it's funny, because people sometimes say, oh, you write good female characters. You just write people, honestly. It's not any different. I think that if you're over-focused on the gender, you're probably writing a pretty one-dimensional character. Gender's not that huge of a component of personality, I don't think. At the end of the day, I think our humanity is the bigger component. I try to just write everybody like...genderless in some ways. Which I think is what makes them interesting.
Johanna Armstrong
http://geek.pikimal.com/2012/01/07/saucy-saturdays-amy-hennig-creative-director-at-naughty-dog/ (http://geek.pikimal.com/2012/01/07/saucy-saturdays-amy-hennig-creative-director-at-naughty-dog/)
This week on Saucy Saturdays we're going to take a look at one of the most influential women in the game industry. Can you guess who it is? Can you even name three female game designers? If you can, I'm impressed, but my guess is most of you can't. There are a lot of reasons for that, one of the biggest being that there aren't many women in the industry to begin with.
One of the goals for Saucy Saturday is to bring these women pioneers to light, to show you that women can be creative, they can handle themselves in the industry, and they can be badass. You probably aren't aware that some of the most popular games on the market only exist because women helped create them. So today, our honorary Lady Designer of the Month is Amy Hennig: writer and director for some of the most successful Naughty Dog games.
...One of her most poignant notes on gender, however, comes from her response to a question about writing male characters as a female:
I don't think it's any different, honestly. Actually, it's funny, because people sometimes say, oh, you write good female characters. You just write people, honestly. It's not any different. I think that if you're over-focused on the gender, you're probably writing a pretty one-dimensional character. Gender's not that huge of a component of personality, I don't think. At the end of the day, I think our humanity is the bigger component. I try to just write everybody like...genderless in some ways. Which I think is what makes them interesting.