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Programmers: Video Games Need Female Touch

Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:25:03 AM
By GREG SANDOVAL

 Tammy Yap, a software engineer at video game producer Midway Home Entertainment Inc.,  in San Diego poses at her multi-screen workstation Monday July 18, 2005. Yap, who learned her programming at MIT, is one of the few females working in the video game software field. At a time when the level of sex and violence in videogames has come under increased scrutiny and companies crave more female customers, the number of women with a hand in creating games remains a small percentage of the sector's work force.  (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Tara Teich enjoys nothing more than slipping into the role of a female video game character. But the 26-year-old software programmer gets annoyed by the appearance of such digital alter egos as the busty tomb raider Lara Croft or the belly-baring Wu the Lotus Blossom of "Jade Empire."

Don't even get her started on the thong-bikini babes that the male gunmen win as prizes in "Grand Theft Auto," which was sent to stores with hidden sex scenes left embedded on the discs by programmers.

Rockstar Games belatedly took responsibility for the scenes this week after the industry's ratings board re-rated the game "Adults Only."


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