A look back at what happened this year. A public storage of my memories and wishes for the future.

Previously: Pt. 5 :: #FemDevsMeetup :: 💚

Well, I didn’t see that coming.

I got invited to represent, together with Linda, the #FemDevsMeetup at the Deutscher Entwicklerpreis gala last December. I thought “nice, free food and an excuse to wear something other than a hoodie.”

It had been a week, so I decided to zone out and just focus on the menu, only to look up when the nominees were announced and happy to recognize some of the titles and colleagues getting their prizes. I was told later on that the hostesses were fantastic and gave a great show, but I also thanked not having to concentrate on understanding a language that I shamefully still don’t speak as fluently as I should.

And then I heard my name.

A mix of loving gratitude and murderous thoughts invaded me. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to lure me into this wonderful trap. And there I was, incapable of presenting myself on stage, or at least that’s how I felt at the moment.

The NRW-Förderpreis für junge Entwicklerinnen (the North Rhine-Westphalia Sponsorship Award for Young Female Developers) is a prize without nominations for professional women in recognition of their career and involvement in the games industry.

I’m left here thinking “junge as in young”, though according to TV I could only cast for mother-tier roles at this point. I wonder when this industry will be sustainable enough to keep the majority of its workforce long enough to reach retirement (laughs in millennial).

In the meantime, I have a pretty neat prize to spend on books and hardware, plenty of gigs to sustain myself and enough time to exist outside of work.

Next: Pt. 7 :: Oh, right, I once liked making games, the last of this 2022 recap. Take care.