Game development Research: Women are better at developing games than men

Women are better at developing games than men, a study from the University of Sussex in the UK recently showed.

The study showed that when it comes to developing games, girls can write more complex programs than boys, and they know more about coding. Part of the study at the University of Sussex is to have a group of 33-year-olds spend 8 weeks developing their own 3D role-playing games.

Dr. Kate Howland and Dr. Judith developed a programming language called Flip, which uses a simple interface to help children string together scenes and basic items that trigger changes in the game, for example, when a treasure box is opened, a piece of text pops up.

The girls used 7 trigger scenes in the game, almost twice times as many boys in the group, and were more successful than boys in setting up complex scenes using two or more scenes and conditional sentences. Boys tend to set the trigger scene around a character's words, which is the first and simplest of the class to trigger the scene.

"In primary and junior high school, girls are more literate than boys. Perhaps it's because of the link between the coding process and an activity that they tend to do well, that is, the ability to read and write, which leads to a corresponding high achievement in programming skills, "