Who makes games? Straight, white males, that's who.

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has surveyed game developers and has learned what we kind of already knew. Game creators tend to be straight, white, college-educated males 31 years old on average. Some of them are also not too concerned about the lack of diversity in the games industry. And some of them are.

Some quotes from the survey:

• "I think this survey is quite ridiculous. We are here in the industry to work and to produce quality games, not
  to be politically correct and ensure that all facets of lifestyles and society are represented. I don't care who or
  what my colleagues are as long as they get the job done."

• "Although female novelists are well represented and well regarded within fantasy literature and approximately
  30%+ of our writing applicants are female, my company has yet to hire a female writer (we have had approximatelty
  20-30 writers on staff over the course of my 8 years with the company). I can't help but conclude that our complete
  lack of gender diversity within the design department is a clear and direct product of deliberate misogyny within
  our hiring process. In spite of this, we continue to be recognized as an industry leader, making various 'best
  place to work' lists, and are consistently lauded as a positive example for other developers. Sad but true."

• "Most people (white males between 20 and 40)I have worked with agree that our industry is extremely unnatural in
  it's lack of diversity. Family and friends that work in the 'real World' are quite amazed when they hear that I
  work only with other people of my exact same demographic."

[Via Digg]