Thought Leadership
Ethics and inclusivity in the gaming sector
Poornima Seetahraman
Director Design, Zynga. Poornima has been part of the gaming industry for 16+ years. She is currently a Director of Design at Zynga. She has worked on franchises like BioShock Mobile, How to Train your Dragons, Neopets, and FarmVille 2: Country Escape to name a few. She is a Women in Games Ambassador at WIGJ and the founder of Women in Games India (WIGIN), multiaward winner and a Hall of Fame Inductee at the Global WIG Awards 2020, making her the first Indian game developer to receive such an honour. You can know more about her at http://drowlife.com/
My journey started at the age of sixteen when my friends introduced me to games like Age of Empires II and Warcraft III. From there my interest kept growing. During my college days, I created campaigns for these games, and shared them with my friends to get feedback for improvement, not knowing that this was game design! After graduating as an engineer, I was recommended as a game design programmer and had a month to come up with a Game Design Document (GDD). Back in 2006, there were few