Silicon Sisters Interactive Inc.

SSI creates games about romance, relationships and passion. Games are about playing fantasies - what are female fantasies?

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Gaming
  • Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Currency CAD
  • Founded January 2010
  • Employees 4
  • Website SiliconSisters.ca

Company Summary

The video game market has been expanding exponentially. Much of this market growth is driven by women aged 30-50 flocking to the casual games portals. Content creators are caught playing catch up - how do we create new and engaging games for this hungry new market? What is the next big genre? Romance. Silicon Sisters is creating a new genre for this market - and will be the Harlequin Romance of the video game world.

Team

  • Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch
    C.E.O.

    Brenda Bailey Gershkovitch is a serial gaming entrepreneur & was previously Co-Founder and C.O.O. of Deep Fried Ent, a PSP, DS and Wii studio in Vancouver CA. Brenda oversaw all operations of the studio and brought five console games to market for Sega and Take Two Sports. Her new studio is Silicon Sisters Interactive, a female focused studio creating high quality product for the underserved female gaming market. Games for Us!

  • Kirsten Forbes
    C.O.O.

    Executive Producer
    Radical Entertainment (Activision Blizzard)
    1997 – August 2010 (13 years)

    Kirsten is a leading Producer in the games industry and has had a long and industrious career bringing quality games to market for Radical Entertainment, Activision / Blizzard. having shipped 12 AAA level titles, Kirsten knows how to deliver quality on time and on budget, is a scrum master and at the top of her game.

  • Felicity Herst
    Lead Engineer

    Felicity began her career at EA, working on the Active Kinnect team. Felicity is a gameplay programmer, who has degrees in both Computer Science (UBC) and English Literature. Her lead skills are- Gameplay
    - UI design and HCI
    - Data-driven AI
    C++/Objective C/C#/Java/scripting and she has a passion for data collection and analysis.

  • Lauren Wood
    Lead Designer

    Lauren is a highly experienced game designer who worked with Sony in the Uk before joining Radical Entertainment (which became Activision / Blizzard). Lauren is a mom and passionate about building games for women and girls.

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