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This article appears in the\u00a0most recent issue of Transylvania\u2019s Third & Broadway magazine<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Erin Marek \u201916, a scuba-diving, Arctic Circle-researching, video game-playing, sword-wielding, track and soccer athlete, it\u2019s been a journey \u2014 not unlike the video games that inspire her \u2014 of challenges and feats, of personal development and clarity of passion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marek recalls the summer before her senior year at Transy, hiking up and down a mountain in Sweden for 13 hours a day, gathering soil samples and running lab tests. A successful biology major with a variety of paid summer research internships notched onto her CV, Marek suddenly found herself in the midst of an epiphany. Looking around at her peer researchers, she could see that she lacked their level of passion for the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI remember thinking, \u2018Man, I don\u2019t know if this is something I can do for the next 40 years of my life.\u2019\u201d Rather than panicking, she thought hard about what she really enjoyed doing and realized it was video game design. \u201cAt the time I was a dungeon master,\u201d she says, a game organizer who controls many components of the game. \u201cI loved doing that. I\u2019d been doing it for 10 years and I could keep doing that \u2014 and do it all day, if I needed to. That\u2019s kind of like making games,\u201d she realized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how would she make such a radical transition from biology major, with an emphasis on ecology and conservation research, to being a competitive candidate for a top master\u2019s program in game and interactive media design?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLuckily,\u201d she explains, \u201cI had found a passion in art history at Transy and was majoring in it on the side. It was just something I really enjoyed.\u201d That freedom to explore new subjects, so integral to a liberal arts education, had allowed her to develop new interests that could translate handily. So, when Marek returned to campus for her senior year and told her professors that she wanted to go into the video game industry, they readily gave her the flexibility she needed to change direction on a dime. They helped her understand the groundwork she\u2019d already established.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can use a lot of the skills you learned in art history and apply those to what you might be doing in the game industry,\u201d she remembers her professors telling her. Working with them, she zeroed in on subjects for her two senior thesis papers that were at once focused on art history, but also related to the game industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, she looked at the visual art of video games from the perspective of art history, researching women\u2019s armor. Traditionally, video games have represented a highly sexualized way of looking at women, most often depicting even heroic characters as scantily attired with no real protection. As a female gamer, this had bothered Marek. It made no sense in terms of practicality. And, as research for her thesis demonstrated, this tendency toward the degradation of women had a negative impact on girl gamers and the entire gaming community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days, half of video gamers are female and 40% of the world\u2019s population now plays. Gone are the days that once justified catering to the predilections of the stereotypical adolescent boy. Marek\u2019s perspective is no longer in the minority and is of increasing value to the growing industry that already dwarfs Hollywood box office and music industry revenues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But first she had to get her foot in the door. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In her application to the master\u2019s program, she touted her unconventional background that set her apart from other candidates. She emphasized how all that she\u2019d learned at Transy was directly applicable to her future career: the organization, methodology, data analysis and interpretation that she learned in science; the inclusive and collaborative culture in the classroom and in team sports; the openness and interest in listening to multiple perspectives; the fearlessness in taking on new challenges; the simultaneous development as a generous leader and team player; and the supportive relationships and mentoring modeled by faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had a lot of really great mentors at Transy,\u201d she says. \u201cI had some amazing biology professors and art history professors. They really cared about me and my success and were willing to take the time. They believed in me, and I think that really made it easy for me to believe in myself \u2014 that I could do what I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marek sees all of these dimensions playing out in her day-to-day work as development manager at Riot Games. \u201cI manage a team, so I help develop the work systems they use to make the games,\u201d she explains. She enjoys mentoring and supporting their efforts and helping everyone align toward a central goal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI function as a delivery lead, and I partner with a product lead. My product lead is actually another female, which is super cool that you have two females leading the in-game initiative for Wild Rift. And we have a lot of other great females on the team, too. The product partner lead focuses more on \u2018what are we making and why are we making it,\u2019 and I focus more on \u2018how are we making it and when.\u2019 Together we collaborate to make that happen with our team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, Marek\u2019s team released Wild Rift, the mobile version of the popular game League of Legends. Mobile play is central to industry growth and, as she explains, to expanding the female audience. Her team\u2019s work is comprehensive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being part of League of Legends is a sort of coming full circle for Marek. It was the game that she and her brother chose to play as a way of staying connected when they moved to different states. Video games, she notes, have always been a way for her to bond with her brothers. And it was their mother\u2019s penchant for gaming that introduced the family to the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grateful to be part of the game-making she loves, Marek understands the opportunities she has in joining the industry at a time when it is open to change. Her long-term goals encompass being an executive producer and replacing stereotypes with more genuine characters that better represent the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would love to focus on diversity and inclusion in games,\u201d she says, \u201crepresenting people who haven\u2019t been represented, reaching out to a broader audience, as well as depicting women and men equally in video games, instead of having a more biased perspective as sometimes you see in certain games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Accomplishing this, she says \u201cis about breaking down what those class, race and gender stereotypes are, and really just making characters that feel honest to people who actually exist. A lot of that comes from having people in the game industry who come from diverse backgrounds, who represent a broader perspective than what I myself or somebody else might be able to bring.\u201d Helping people understand different audiences and perceptions is part of the effort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Transy, Marek learned how to question why things are as they are and to have the confidence to challenge what needs changing. The opportunities to push herself to develop an open mind and to trust herself, she says, \u201chave carried over to my professional and personal life.\u201d She recognizes the value of \u201chaving the flexibility of mind to be able to adjust to circumstances and not to get stressed or anxious around things you don\u2019t understand or don\u2019t know.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marek\u2019s unconventional path led her precisely to where she needed to be. \u201cIt definitely was a wild ride,\u201d she says with laughter. \u201cBut because of my diverse education at Transy, it made me a strong applicant. If I\u2019d just had biology and not art history, I\u2019m not certain that I would have gotten into the grad program that led me to getting my job in the industry,\u201d she adds. \u201cAnd it was with the support of a lot of people that I ended up getting into my grad program.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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