The Game Workshop (not to be confused with Games Workshop) is holding a contest to find new 2D/3D game artists. Cool, right? The only problem is all the judges are male.
This is egregious because hello, it’s 2016.
It’s also particularly egregious because art is one of the few areas in game development where women are fairly well-represented. It’s not like they couldn’t have found female judges.
If you’re so inclined, here are the contest’s partners/sponsors:
- Independent Festival of Creative Communication – @ifcc_croatia
- ArtStation – @ArtStationHQ
- Allegorithmic – @Allegorithmic
- Marmoset – @marmosetco
- Ten Thousand Hours
- Boonar
- CubeBrush – @cubebrush
- Art Order – @ArtOrder
Also, note that the link to the contest above is through DoNotLink.
A lot of what keeps the odd double standards and worrying tropes in design is the relative isolation the powers that be keep themselves in – that includes often having decision makers consistently entirely of men.
Thus we’d like to support encouraging The Game Workshop and their sponsors to consider diversifying their judging panel.
– wincenworks
Edit: We’ve been informed that since the post was made originally 2 days ago, female judges joined the panel.