According to the IGDA’s latest report, I’m pretty typical of most folks in the game industry (ie, white, male, 31, university education, no disability, straight, etc).

The report, titled “Game Developer Demographics: An Exploration of Workforce Diversity“, is an interesting, and quick (ie, lots of pretty graphs), doc to read through… And, it is quite simple. If we had had the statistical expertize, we could have probably done a lot more sophisticated analysis (eg, regression testing on the compensation numbers would have been valuable). Anyway, hopefully by releasing the data, we’ll get back some interesting derivative work from the research community…

That said, to me, the most interesting results came from the write-in comments (over 1000 of them!). The comments provide insight into developer thoughts on diversity at a much deeper level than the numbers could ever show. At 100+ pages, it is at least worth a skim (hint: text search on swear words to get at some of the truly caustic ones ;)