Building a gamer community for women in Saudi Arabia

At Wamda’s Mix N’ Mentor Riyadh, we chatted with Tasneem Salim, the cofounder of GCON, a community and annual conference for female gamers and game developers in Saudi Arabia. In this brief interview, Salim discusses how they formed their first convention last year, which attracted over 3,000 gamers and major gaming sponsors including Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. GCON’s team, made up of all female developers, artists, and writers, is also hosting a female developer competition in collaboration with Saudi incubator Verso to build the best education games for the change to win incubation, seed…

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Building a gamer community for women in Saudi Arabia