We're coming to AdventureX!

We are delighted to be included in this year’s line-up at AdventureX 2025, with a talk entitled “What’s going wrong with women’s dialogue in video games?”.

AdventureX is the UK’s narrative-driven gaming convention, which brings together gamemakers passionate about interactive storytelling. A key part of interactive storytelling in many games is dialogue, and we’ll be drawing on our research on gender bias, women’s attitudes to gaming and forthcoming work to highlight pervasive and surprising patterns in character dialogue in video games.

In our talk, we will provide hard data on gender biases, including how much characters say, who they speak to, what they say, and what they use language to do. For example, twice as much dialogue is given to men compared to women, and even games with women as protagonists rarely give more than half the dialogue to women. We’ll identify opportunities for gamemakers to create more inclusive experiences, and talk about the progress that has been made so far.

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