The UK games industry has a class problem – here’s how one organisation is trying to fix it | Gaming

“Last year we ran a big games careers festival in Downham, on the border of Lewisham and Bromley in London, in a leisure center in the heart of a very deprived community that hasn’t seen anything like this in that space,” Into Games CEO Declan Cassidy tells me over a call. A UK-based non-profit focused on enhancing social mobility in the UK games sector, Into Games reported last year that, in terms of socioeconomic access, game development has one of the worst records “of any creative or technical sector”.

2022’s UKIE census found that only 13% of UK games professionals are from working class backgrounds, a figure Cassidy has said would be closer 37% if it reflected society as a whole. It’s a complex issue, but Cassidy’s work starts in a simple place: letting working…more

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