This is the future of video game development

[Joystiq]

The

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initiative aims to encourage young women to dive into the rich industry of video game development, and it seems to be doing the trick. This year at the

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awards ceremony, nine young ladies from Girls Make Games collected the ID@Xbox Rising Star award for their work on

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. It's a top-down RPG featuring an archaeologist named Wendy who digs a portal to a fantastical dimension in her backyard. Yeah, it's pretty neat.

We caught up with the winners right after they collected their prizes and had one question for each of them: What do you want the future of video games to look like?

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