List of women in the video game industry
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This is a list of notable women in the video game industry.
A
Reine Abbas - Lebanese video game designer
Mabel Addis - Wrote the mainframe game The Sumerian Game (1964), becoming the first female video game designer.
Tina Amini - IGN editor-in-chief.
Anna Anthropy - American video game designer who has worked on multiple indie games such as Mighty Jill Off and is the game designer in residence at the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media.
B
Dona Bailey - American game programmer who, along with Ed Logg in 1981, created the arcade video game Centipede.
Laura Bailey - American voice actress.
Ellen Beeman - American fantasy and science fiction author, cofounder the industry group Women in Games International, and computer game designer/producer since the 1990s. Since 2014, she has been a faculty member at DigiPen Institute of Technology.
Debbie Bestwick - British entrepreneur, founder of Team17.
Amy Briggs - American video game implementor known for creating Plundered Hearts, an interactive fiction computer game published by Infocom in 1987.
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