SarahBeck
Currently works as a software developer of EA. She has a BSc in Computing Science and enjoys JRPGS, anime, and Ruby on Rails. You can find her on Twitter at @sarah_bytes. Opinions are my own.
Way back in August of 2014 I wrote an article that was a survey of League of Legends champions from a gendered perspective. Since then Riot has released some new characters that answer the critiques I made. My other article ended with the desire to…
I have done several panels in the past few years and this is by far the most asked question. Just to clarify, I am inexperienced, but I am a developer working for a AAA company. I think this puts me an interesting position when talking about this t…
News
27
Apr
2015
I firmly believe that getting out to a convention a year, especially for those who work or live their free time in geekdom, is extremely cathartic. Over April 17-20th I attended Calgary Expo as an annual tradition. Calgary Expo is the second larges…
News
15
Oct
2014
Last weekend I was able to attend the fantastic, feminist Geek Girl Con 2014. This is a place of magical girls and feminist friendly dreams in the heart of Seattle, WA. The convention was amazing, by far one of the most supportive communities I hav…
Review
11
Aug
2014
The following is a statistical analysis of the League of Legends Champion's character design from a gendered perspective. In this analysis data was collected directly from the champion profiles listed on leagueoflegends.com/champions. Data is valid…
Critique
30
Jun
2014
Lets start with Genji Monogatari. The tale of Genji is a piece of classical japanese literature written by lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in 11th century Japan at the height of the Heian era. The tale follows the life and adventures of a beautifu…
Critique
4
May
2014
Dollhouses have been historically used as interpretive play spaces where the user can explore social constructs. The goal of this essay is to merge the analysis of dollhouses, originating from the 16th century concept of miniatures and deconstruct …
Programming
25
Mar
2014
Image Credit: opensourceway. Open source is rapidly becoming one of the most influential communities of our time, but I have been noticing more recently that many open source projects are lacking in female founders, contributors, and supporters. So…
This past Friday (March 14th) I was invited to speak on a Women within Games panel at the University of Alberta's "Can you DiG it?" Humanities Computing Conference. In this post I want to quickly summarize the panel and discuss some of the issues t…
Review
21
Feb
2014
For Valentine's day I was gifted with a copy of Bravely Default. Released by Square Enix this game is the "spiritual successor" to the 2010 Nintendo DS game Final Fantasy: the 4 Heroes of Light. It is interesting that Square Enix has chosen to foll…
