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The female game-makers

Ella Al-Shamahi finds out what happens behind-the-scenes at the world鈥檚 biggest video game titles, and how hard it is to invent a board game.

How do video and board games get from idea to reality? Ella Al-Shamahi talks to two women who invent, tweak and perfect the games that so many of us love to play.

Sigurl铆na Ingvarsd贸ttir from Iceland has produced some of the world鈥檚 biggest video game titles, including FIFA and Star Wars: Battlefront. She now invests in start-up gaming companies as a venture capitalist.

Natalie Podd invented the board game Confident while canoeing up the Amazon, and quit her corporate job in the UK as an actuary in order to work on it and other ideas. She and her husband sell their board games around the world.

Produced by Hannah Sander

(Image: (L) Natalie Podd. (R) Sigurl铆na Ingvarsd贸ttir.)

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