The need for a diverse, inclusive, safe development culture and workplace is not a “women’s issue” but an industry issue.

Last week we were asked to lend a helping hand at the Dare for Schools 2013 event, organised by Dare to Be Digital and run by the Univerity of Abertay's inestimable Grant Clarke. Twenty high school students were let loose on the university's PCs, their goal: make an awesome game in just five days.

Quartic Llamas have been spotted over the last few weeks, wandering around Dundee wearing gigantic headphones and pointing strange technological equipment at random objects around the city. Seemingly oblivious to the outside world, they have been seen stopping in strange locations and muttering “the levels are all wrong here” , or “not getting a signal” here...