The Diversity Pledge

At Agate, we welcome talented crews regardless of their personal identities and backgrounds. We have people of various ethnicities from all over Indonesia working together, which empowers us to introduce game characters in all different shades of color. We also introduced a company policy offering period leave for our female employees, which is rarely implemented in Indonesia -- to attract a diverse candidate pool. Echoing our motto, \'Live the Fun Way,\' we want our games to color the world, and make it a happier place for all to live in.

Aditia Dwiperdana, Chief Studio Officer, Agate International

Player & Employee Diversity is more than just a checkbox for Blitz. It extends down to the core of what we do and the values that guide us. Creating a safe and accessible environment for anyone to improve around the world has allowed us to successfully operate in 230 countries.

Adil Virani, Co-Founder, Blitz, Inc.

At Homa, we believe that true diversity is key to good technology. This is because we believe real growth is the result of genuine diversity -- the widest possible range of nationalities, backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences – working toward a single objective. If you’ve got the smarts, the energy and the motivation, there are no barriers to keep you from going far here.\n\n We believe that diversity improves employees’ well-being and happiness; that it boosts creativity and innovation, in every aspect of our business; that it helps to attract, develop and retain great talent that can thrive and do their best work at Homa; that it empowers relatable mobile games, and enables our expansion into new and increasingly diverse markets.\n\nThis year, we\'ve partnered with Google to support diversity and inclusion in the gaming industry -- to empower the next generation and offer inspiration and opportunities to female students in the gaming industry.

Daniel Nathan, Founder & CEO, Homa

Unity’s Global Inclusion team works alongside leadership and the entire organization to build strong, diverse, and inclusive teams. In the past few years, we\'ve accelerated this critical work to include establishing nine global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), developing and delivering training such as anti-racism leadership training, inclusion training for all employees, and training to mitigate bias for for recruiters and hiring managers in candidate outreach and interviews, establishing an inclusion workshop for new hire onboarding, and much more. We’re proud to share the details of this work in our latest ESG report.

Tai Wingfield, Global Inclusion Lead, Unity

At Arkadium, we believe that differing points of view leads to superior outcomes. We strive for diversity in the games we create -- this includes games that are accessible to all adults and player avatars that represent diverse ages, races, abilities, and genders.

Jessica Rovello, Executive Chair and Co-founder, Arkadium

Diversity and inclusion is a cultural imprint in Mattel163\'s games. From UNO! Mobile to Phase 10 Mobile to Skip-Bo Mobile, we\'ve brought more than 300 million players together through innovative gameplay that transcends gender, culture, and age. Our in-game events are designed to appeal to a broad range of interests and celebrate cultures from all over the world. At Mattel163, we make sure every innovation starts with inclusion.

Amy Huang, CEO of Mattel163

At Neowiz, we strive to provide uniquely inclusive game experiences by forming and growing a development team that welcomes ongoing constructive feedback and deeply understands various games, and among them, female-oriented games. <Guitar Girl> and <Oh My ANNE> are particularly differentiated from games of similar genres by their focus on stories, characters, and emotional art that female users can relate to, such as <Guitar Girl>’s chatting story and <Oh My ANNE>’s story cutscene. We''ll continue to challenge ourselves to develop games that the greatest possible variety of users can enjoy.

Oh Wonshik, PD, NEOWIZ

At Rovio, we believe in creating content that provides a safe and welcoming space for our gaming audience. To that end, we published the first version of our Games & Marketing Content Guidelines, which is accessible to all 500+ employees, as a playbook on inclusive game design and marketing. This document will be renewed regularly, so we can continue to deliver high-value experiences to our players in our rapidly changing industry.

Heini Kaihu, Chief Sustainability Officer, Rovio Entertainment Corporation

At Matchingham Games we believe diversity is one of the major elements that helped us create innovative games that reach hundreds of millions of players worldwide. We embrace diversity and inclusion not just in our company culture, but also during our design, production, LiveOps, and even marketing processes. It has been essential to our ability to publish more than 20 successful mobile titles and well-known brands in less than three years.

Fatih Haltas, CEO, Matchingham Games

At Octro, DEI has become the fabric of our organization. Being a leader in the gaming industry, we believe it is important that our games resonate well with different spheres of races, gender, and culture. To ensure DEI remains a guidepost for all our actions, we\'ve created a diverse panel which did an in-depth analysis of the functions of different Octro departments. This helped us identify the departments such as Creative Design and Product Management that have a greater impact on our customers, along with along with their key actions and work tasks. We then developed a metric to tailor our game offerings to a more diverse audience.\n\nWe\'ve learned a lot from this initiative. Most importantly, it has helped us understand the daily routines of different personas so we can make sure that our games fit into the lives of people, rather than the other way around. As a result, we\'ve improvised our game’s creative assets, tournament timings, playing habits, and overall aesthetics -- all of which now represent a broader and more universal user base.

Vikram Gupta, Head of Products, Octro

We used to have quite a few games that catered to a male audience, with male protagonists and male-oriented gameplay themes, not to mention all-male design teams. This year, we\'ve made a point of looking into DEI, in both our company and our latest games. We\'re doing our best to make sure we have a mix of ethnicities and genders in our design and marketing teams. Extending equal opportunities to everyone in turn shaped the games that we created and published.\n\nWe understand that our portfolio of earlier merge games had a large percentage of female players even though their themes were less female-oriented. We recently launched Merge Restaurant, a more casual game that all genders and age groups could enjoy.

Vincent Low, CEO, Potato Play