Game Industry Women to Know: 2010
February 24, 10:00 AM
Two factors prompted me to assemble this pithy list of 50 Game Industry Women to Know. The first is that our Frag Doll site will be under construction for the next week and will not be updated with daily content. Consequently, we needed a blog entry deserving of a whole week’s worth of attention. Since I’ve been wanting to do this kind of piece for a while, I figured there would be no better time to give props to some of the most badass women from around the video game industry. The second factoring motivation was a recent encounter I had with a Top 50 People in the Game Industry list that had ZERO women on it. ZERO!!! And it was a list in a major game industry magazine!!! I am still baffled. In the midst of my initial shock, I could name at least a dozen women off the top of my head who would vie for a spot on any Game Industry Top 50 list, so it’s impossible for me to comprehend how the compilers of that particular list did not manage to think of a single one. Many rants, deep breaths, and counting-to-10s later, I decided to help balance the score by creating my own list of the female movers and shakers in our industry. This is certainly not the first list of its kind, as there have been several Most Influential Women lists over the years. …
February 24, 10:00 AM
Two factors prompted me to assemble this pithy list of 50 Game Industry Women to Know. The first is that our Frag Doll site will be under construction for the next week and will not be updated with daily content. Consequently, we needed a blog entry deserving of a whole week’s worth of attention. Since I’ve been wanting to do this kind of piece for a while, I figured there would be no better time to give props to some of the most badass women from around the video game industry. The second factoring motivation was a recent encounter I had with a Top 50 People in the Game Industry list that had ZERO women on it. ZERO!!! And it was a list in a major game industry magazine!!! I am still baffled. In the midst of my initial shock, I could name at least a dozen women off the top of my head who would vie for a spot on any Game Industry Top 50 list, so it’s impossible for me to comprehend how the compilers of that particular list did not manage to think of a single one. Many rants, deep breaths, and counting-to-10s later, I decided to help balance the score by creating my own list of the female movers and shakers in our industry. This is certainly not the first list of its kind, as there have been several Most Influential Women lists over the years. …
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XBOX LIVE GAMERTAG: Rhoulette FD
GAMES I'M PLAYING
* Assassins Creed 2
* Dragon Age: Origins
* COD Modern Warfare 2
* Uncharted 2
* Borderlands
HEIGHT: 5'8"
EYES: Hazel
HAIR: Red & curly
LOCATION: Southern California
HOMETOWN: San Diego, CA
FAVORITE GENRES: MMORPG, RPG, Puzzle, and Action
FAVORITE GAMES: Shadowbane, EverQuest, Okami, Final Fantasy VII, Baldur's Gate 2, Guitar Hero, Sim City, WoW, Portal
FAVORITE SNACK: cheese , gummy bears, and dark chocolate
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Amaterasu from Okami
FAVORITE EMOTE: /raspberry
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!"
FAVORITE MUSIC: The Beatles, Air, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Santigold, Led Zeppelin, Bjork, Outkast, Tori Amos,
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: The Daily Show, The Family Guy, The Simpsons, House, The Office, True Blood, Charmed
FAVORITE BOOKS: Wheel of Time, Dune, LoTR, Ender's Game, Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, Snow Crash, Diamond Age
FAVORITE COLOR: Purple
FIRST GAME ADDICTION: Sim City 2000
FIRST CONSOLE: Sega Genesis
GREATEST MOMENT: Becoming one of Shadowbane's first Empresses
LONGEST SPREE: 30+ hours on EverQuest
OBSESSIONS: gardening, snowboarding, piano, reading, running, people watching, food, my cats
I HATE: An itchy nose, long lines, losing things, waking up before 8.
I LOOK LIKE: I've never had a tan in my life.
GAMES I'M PLAYING
* Assassins Creed 2
* Dragon Age: Origins
* COD Modern Warfare 2
* Uncharted 2
* Borderlands
HEIGHT: 5'8"
EYES: Hazel
HAIR: Red & curly
LOCATION: Southern California
HOMETOWN: San Diego, CA
FAVORITE GENRES: MMORPG, RPG, Puzzle, and Action
FAVORITE GAMES: Shadowbane, EverQuest, Okami, Final Fantasy VII, Baldur's Gate 2, Guitar Hero, Sim City, WoW, Portal
FAVORITE SNACK: cheese , gummy bears, and dark chocolate
FAVORITE CHARACTER: Amaterasu from Okami
FAVORITE EMOTE: /raspberry
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!"
FAVORITE MUSIC: The Beatles, Air, David Bowie, Nick Drake, Santigold, Led Zeppelin, Bjork, Outkast, Tori Amos,
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: The Daily Show, The Family Guy, The Simpsons, House, The Office, True Blood, Charmed
FAVORITE BOOKS: Wheel of Time, Dune, LoTR, Ender's Game, Song of Ice and Fire, Harry Potter, Snow Crash, Diamond Age
FAVORITE COLOR: Purple
FIRST GAME ADDICTION: Sim City 2000
FIRST CONSOLE: Sega Genesis
GREATEST MOMENT: Becoming one of Shadowbane's first Empresses
LONGEST SPREE: 30+ hours on EverQuest
OBSESSIONS: gardening, snowboarding, piano, reading, running, people watching, food, my cats
I HATE: An itchy nose, long lines, losing things, waking up before 8.
I LOOK LIKE: I've never had a tan in my life.
Morgan Romine, better known as “Rhoulette” in the video game online community, epitomizes the complex super hero-like persona that her gamer-tag portrays: sophisticated, classy, educated and feminine while also a tech-head, “gamer geek” and no-nonsense former Pac-10 basketball player who has the ability to excel in multiple areas both professionally and personally.
Romine is currently a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine studying to get a PhD in cultural anthropology. She plans to research sociality in online communities, and is specifically interested in how achievement systems in online multiplayer videogames are designed and how they impact peoples’ lives both in and out of the game. Her background as a community manager for Ubisoft and experience as a Frag Doll provide a strong foundation for understanding online cultural phenomena.
Romine helped found and build Ubisoft’s all-girl gaming team, the Frag Dolls and as captain of the team, she serves as spokesperson, gamer, road manager, and liaison between the team and Ubisoft. In 2006 she was named one of the game industry’s Top 100 Most Influential Women by www.next-gen.biz for her work with the Frag Dolls, and again named one of The Most Influential Women in Tech by www.FastCompany.com in 2009.
Although Romine’s tenure in the video game industry began after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, she’s no ‘n00b’ to video games. She started out playing video games when she was six years old and she’s been playing ever since, with online games as her current passion. In fact, her introduction to Ubisoft was through their MMORPG title, Shadowbane, where she led a clan of more than 200 players. Currently she is playing games like World of Warcraft, Assassin’s Creed 2, Dragon Age:Origins, Peggle, Plants vs. Zombies, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Romine is excited about the continued growth of the video game industry and how women will play an integral role as gamers and within the business itself.
