Sci-Fi & Squeam

9 May 2015

Post Freeplay: Cherie Davidson on Indie Devs.

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Sonja -The Squeamer- Hammer talks to Indie Dev: Cherie Davidson just before she leaves for Europe to further her skills in games development and experience. Cherie was a Chair of the Freeplay Awards at this years Freeplay Independent Games Festival held in Melbourne!

Sonja and Cherie talked about many things like Feminism, Representation and Diverse people in games the joy of coding, playing, Stem, emergence and more…

‘Cherie Davidson is a jack-of-all-trades indie game developer and game lecturer at RMIT, currently working on Wander MMO and Inventory Imp. She has a strong interest in meaningful game design and loves the technical joy of problem solving through code. In 2011 she completed a degree in Digital Art (Games) with Distinction, and in 2013 followed it up by completing a second bachelor degree, Games and Graphics Programming, with marks placing her in the top 2% of graduates that year. In her spare time she develops games fuelled by her personal interest in topics of feminism, social justice, politics and occasionally even fun.’

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Footnote: Melbourne GGJ 2015 reached their longstanding goal of only 20% women 🙁 not the 30-something% mentioned in the interview).
However! There’s a much better stat Cherie discovered and forgot to mention: Freeplay had over 50% female – identifying speaker this year.

Below: Producer, character modeller and animator and technical artist.

Velocityraptor is a final year student project from 2011.