Don't miss Pixelles ✨ Game Dev Moms Micro Talks ✨! Yiyi Zhang's (Heart Machine Inc., Gumbo Collective Inc., Arcade Common) micro talk discusses the often heard "...And you're also a mom??":
I low-key dread the self-intro in a professional setting. I understand why they need to happen but I always feel awkward by the end of my intro. Like many women in the industry, and many women living / working in NYC, I have a lot of side hustles, responsibilities, and work I'm involved in. On top of that, yes, I'm also a mom. So when I reel off my list of affiliations and current roles, and include in the end that I'm also a mom, usually someone will say something to the effect of "you do all that AND you're also a mom??" As if somehow having spawned an offspring makes it impressive or even heroic to be able to wear various professional hats.
I think of parenting as yet another job. It's a very important one, the one I care about the most, and my highest priority. But at the end of the day, it's very much just like my other roles and side hustles. It's something I choose to allocate time, energy, and resources to. It's something I think about often, constantly want to level up in, and strive to learn more about. A large reason why the culture of game development resonates with me is because I see so many parallels and transferrable mentalities between raising a child and making a game. A lot of the skills and approaches are transferrable.
This talk will be about how wearing the "mom hat" is still just another hat. And how thinking about game dev through that lens can ultimately make your dual careers as a game maker and a parent more symbiotic and efficient.
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Free | Online | May 22 | Tickets: https://lnkd.in/ewxFf2Xf