ABSTRACT

What is it like to be a woman who creates games, reviews them, or teaches about them in Czechia? Is it an advantage, a curse, or are women's experiences no different from men's? Have we moved on from the sexist 1990s? Are there differences between women in gaming culture at home and abroad?

At the round table, game developers, managers, and journalists, women of different generations, with diverse backgrounds and different professional careers, will discuss their experiences. Together, they will offer their perspective on working in the gaming world—from the daily challenges associated with sexism to feelings of belonging, from stereotypes to the changes that have (hopefully) been taking place in recent years. The aim is to show a perspective that differs from that of the male majority, a perspective that is still not widely heard in the media and is not reflected in domestic publications about brave founding fathers.

We cordially invite all game developers, game studies students, and gamers to attend!

Admission is free, but if you want to be sure of a seat in the hall, please register on our website. You can follow news about the event on Facebook or on our Instagram.

program

GUESTS

Jana Kiliánová

She started out in IT, but since 2013 she has been professionally involved in illustration and comics. She is the co-author of the online comic Korektor, which has also been published in book form. She contributed to the visuals for the game FixFox, which won an award at Game Access 2022. Her work includes key art, promotional illustrations, and her own creative projects. She teaches game design at FAMU and, in addition to illustration, is interested in pop culture, video games, and LARPs.

Lída Kulhavá

She is a game design student at Scholastika College and works as a producer at Gamebaze, a game incubator in Brno. She focuses on the phenomenon of serious games and has a long-standing interest in the connection between games, art, and society.

Lenka Krsová

She is a game designer specializing in living world design, works as a game design lecturer, and mentors student and indie projects. She moved into game development from academia and continuously seeks synergy between the two fields. After working on KCD2, she moved to the Polish company Fool's Theory.

Jana Seko

She studied computer science at Masaryk University. For more than five years, she worked at Bohemia Interactive and Ashborne Games, where she focused on marketing assets and user interface design for titles such as Vigor, Last Train Home, and The Guild. She actively participates in and organizes game jams and creates her own smaller game projects.

Šárka Tmějová

She is a gaming journalist, even though she didn't originally want to write about games. She published her first review at the age of fifteen and has since made a name for herself as a critic and player who moves between mainstream productions and independent titles. She has spent most of her time on The Witcher trilogy, but she is also interested in the musical and cultural aspects of video games.

Katka „Suave“ Urbanová

She has more than fifteen years of experience in leadership and has been working in game development for nine years, where she manages teams of programmers and designers. She has participated in organizing Game On! discussions and lectures on mental health in the gaming industry as part of the Game Access conference.

Organizers

Tereza Fousek Krobová – Jan Kremer
pixelarchiv@nfa.cz
Národní filmový archiv
Závišova 502/5
140 00 Praha 4 – Nusle, Czechia