If women designed games, would they be any different?

Just heard Emma Westecott and Aleks Krotoski talking about women and games design on the BBC's Listen Again service. They were on Woman's Hour a couple of weeks back but needless to say in between feeding the baby and packing up to go away for the weekend I only caught snippets.

Emma suggested women could add a more human dimension to games, creatively. Woman's Hour presenter Miriam O'Reilly said the games industry was making efforts to increase the percentage of women developers. Would be interesting to hear more from anyone who knows about this.

We had no women developers apply to Technical Change and I was worried we'd been looking in the wrong places but Toby Barnes from Pixel-lab was telling me he's worked on university courses for games developers and there's a dearth of women applicants - so TC is not alone.

The Women in Games conference is doing something to address the issue. And apparently Electronic Arts is very supportive - here's the blurb about them hosting this year's US WIG.