Game maker Simay Dinc helped organize an event for girls in a Turkish village.
Game maker Simay Dinc helped organize an event for girls in a Turkish village.
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Game maker inspires Turkish village children to make games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Simay Dinc is a first-generation game maker in Turkey, and she wants to teach the next generation to learn how to make games, learn to code, and embrace tech and science as well.

So Dinc, cofounder of Recontact Games and founder of Women in Games Turkey, started a program to teach kids in a small village how to appreciate the interactive arts. The program is called CATS of Small Village, where CATS stands for Culture, Art, Technology, and Science. It was a creativity camp for kids.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.