These heightened skills include creativity, authenticity, hyperfocus, innovative thinking, resilience, sensory awareness, honesty, and verbal skills. “These individuals have talents and skills, with some far above the average,” says Escaich. They detailed Ubisoft’s journey with neurodiversity: Ubisoft’s neurodivergent employees formed the Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group (ERG) in 2021, which now has 400-plus members In addition, an official neurodiversity talent program was created as part of the HR team to support and improve neuro-inclusion at the company. This movement does not consider neurodivergences to be illnesses, but rather neurological variations through which people experience the world in a different way.Īt the Game Developers Conference 2023 (GDC), Neurodiversity Talent Program Director Pierre Escaich and Red Storm Associate Game Designer Aris Bricker discussed how neurodivergent individuals can bring their best talents and skills to their work when they are understood, included, and supported. Neurodiversity is also a social movement, rooted in the autism-rights movements that started in the 1980s. More specifically, two conditions were over-represented, with twice the number of individuals than in the general population: ADHD placed first with 10%, followed by autism with 4%.Ĭoined by sociologist Judy Singer in 1998, the term “neurodiversity” refers to variations in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood, and other mental functions. Results of a 2022 UK games-industry census conducted by trade group Ukie showed that 18% of game developers in the UK self-identify as neurodivergent, which is more than the 15% representation among the general population. More than 1 billion people around the world are neurodivergent, and that population is well-represented within the gaming industry.
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