I’m attending Digra 2005 here in Vancouver. Although it’s been a busy week juggling Digra and VidFest, I did manage to get to the IGDA sponsored Digra panel Friday afternoon.
This panel consisted of five men from local game companies: EA, NextLevel, Relic, Radical and I forget the last one (sorry, whoever you are). Jason della Rocca moderated and started with a series of questions, after which he waded into the audience (consisting almost completely of academics) and took audience questions.
A woman (I didn’t see her, so I don’t know who she was) took the panelists to task for using incorrect statistical data on the subject of women in computer science programs. As she continued with an explanation of the data and a follow-up question (”what percentage of your company are women?”, I believe), two of the panel members began to talk over her. Not answering her question, not talking between themselves without their mikes, just talking over her. She was good about it (basically, she ignored it), but it was incredibly rude on their part.
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