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It is concluded that machinima can serve as a useful tool to explore and improve women’s position in game development and opens up promising possibilities for women to engage in game and animation production.

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Creative remix practices that use video games as materials or as matrices to produce derivative works that go beyond the frame of the game and extend themselves to other media be described as “playful” are studied.

This paper guided high school students from Turkey and Greece, who participated in a e-twinning collaboration project, to produce a short animation film about a local ancient monument of their area using the aforementioned tools.

It is indicated that machinima as a form of emergent play opens up promising possibilities for women to engage in game and animation production and helps to improve women's position in digital media development.