Citizenship at work. Diversity among videogame developers, 2004-2015

This report relies on the data collected in five surveys administered by the International Game Developers Association: the 2004 and 2009 Quality of Life Surveys, the 2005 Demographics Survey and the 2014 and 2015 Developer Satisfaction Surveys (DSS) and on interviews led in Canada in 2013-14. Here we summarize the demographic trends in the videogame industry, the incidence of demographic differences, and the perceptions of diversity in the game industry over an 11 year span. Throughout the report we consider diversity to refer to demographic diversity based on factors such as gender, ethnicity, age, ability, and sexual orientation