SOE's fifth annual G.I.R.L. competition beckons to future game designers

@Baby Choo Choo

I'm so happy someone else on the internet remembers that movie.

@SnarlingWolf

Welcome to the world of scholarships, where it's nearly impossible to get one if you're the average white male.

@SnarlingWolf The purpose is to encourage more women to enter the field by bringing it to their attention. One day, hopefully, there will be no need for competitions that limit by sex or race, but look at any photo of game developers and count the ratio of men to women. I've never seen one that was even close to 1:1. The vast majority of game developers are white males. They don't need encouragement to enter the field. They're the unspoken assumption.

Shame we have to have stupid qualifiers. I'm all for equality but this is most certainly not it. Maybe someday we'll finally figure it out....but I doubt it.

@Drachenfel agreed its like the thing we have in Australia were women get first dibs on job interviews, for reasons of sexual equality.

@DeadlyAccurate

10:1 is more common, 20:1 in technical positions like coding or systems design.

@Everfaust Yes, guys need scholarships. I happen to be a white male, however, and I had no trouble finding them.

Stop and think about this. It's a private scholarship program that leads into a field dominated by men. How in hell would it somehow server a greater purpose by being open to anyone? While it's true that women with talent will be recognized, programs like this are the recognition. You have to completely ignore the purpose and the field to complain that this is a sign of inequality or unfairness.

And really, it just sounds kind of whiny to me.

@Saucelah ~ hmm, think you missed the point of my post entirely...

I'm not complaining that there should be *equal rights* or even that this should be open to everyone... I just find if comical that these companies resorts to bewb tactics and/or girl power!? when trying to bring people into the industry.

As you said, there are plenty of ways to get funding for schooling ~ but notice how none of those ever make the news columns.. or are even mentioned here on massively.

It takes a unique and restricted type of *contest* in order to get attention for their cause.

Personally tho.. I don't see a need for collage when it comes to gaming or even graphic design ~ sure you can use a bit of insight on how merchandicing works or the ins and outs of *trends*.. but is that really worth 40,000-70,000 dollars and a few years of your life?

I say no.. in fact, just look at some of the best artists/animators in the industry ~ or even the ones that got mad popular by learning on their own time and making something for fun...

Monty Oum: Haloid, Dead Fantasy.
Elu, Guinsoo and IceFrog: DOTA, DOTA 2, League of Legends.

For me, I'm a highschool drop out and I'm more then capable of paying for my 2 cars and keeping a roof over my head as free lance animator...

Hell, I'm even learning the torque gaming engine in the hopes of producing my own game later next year.

If interested, I'll be starting to upload tutorials on modeling, texturing, rigging, animation and rendering here in the coming weeks.

My goal is to present a 2nd source/option for people who either can't afford collage or are still in middle/high school and wanna get a head start.

I'll also be uploading a dev diary of my trial and error's over the next year or so while making my game.

So, feel free ta check it out: www.youtube.com/user/RequiemsVoid

First video will be uploaded this Weekend, will be covering base mesh creation using zspheres into a high polycount model.

@laelgon there are, it's called life... that thing where 90-95% of all game developers are male, if you needed help getting into the industry that number would be slightly lower.

If you want scholarships for white males, go into gbyn nursing or professional figureskating.

@fallwind *obgyn

gods I hate this new keyboard.

right on @Saucelah

so sick of hearing white males whining about being so excluded from things (and again, i'm a white male).

@Everfaust ~ wtf... I didn't put this here o.O
can a mod remove this duplicate comment above plz?