: About Me

I am Angela S. Patane, hailing from South Florida, currently residing in Orlando, Florida. I teach Game Design and Public Speaking in Game Development at Full Sail University while attending Goddard College for my MFA in Poetry. My poetry blog: www.ladywordsmith.wordpress.com.

My passion is ...

writing.

I know too much about ...

myself.

My parents always told me ...

be who you are.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be an actress.

My favorite memory ...

is getting picked up by a classic fire truck in San Fransisco by a party of 30-somethings and riding at sunsent through Haight/Ashbury.

Why I write ...

Without writing, I would be dead.

My inspiration ...

is this life, this Earth, this Universe, and all the possibility therein.

Hobbies & Games > Video Game Culture & Community Girls versus boys in the gaming community

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When I interviewed for my current position teaching design fundamentals in a Southeastern Game Development program, my potential employers, both women, informed me that the game development industry is "male dominated." "Are you comfortable with teaching 50+ students, all of which are male?" the course director asked me. I replied that I had spent my life playing games, mostly of the Nintendo persuasion, and didn't mind relaying my knowledge to who ever was interested in receiving it. "Besides, how can women be included in this field if they relent at the thought of working in a male domin...

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