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RE: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Music "Sterling" [mailto:rezo#lords,com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 6:44 AM
> To: Mud Dev Mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article
>
> The consoles are aimed at boys because that's who buys them.
> :) They are
> even more driven by market forces than PC games. My wife, an
> excellent
> video game player, would never buy a console, or even a game,
> though she
> will play them with me.
You should get her a Playstation with:
Monster Rancher
Tail of the Sun
Both games are unavailable for PC & are perfect examples of games that
females like though they aren't necessarily intended as such.
> I would say
> that Hasbro (where a lot of the titles she likes come from)
> is the closest to
> aiming at girls, since they sure aren't aiming at me.
Hasbro's expertise is in the casual gamer. I'd actually venture to say that
a game that appeals to girls is liable to be one that isn't targeted at the
*adolescent* male. Most adult, mature men will actually find gameplay
oriented around building, nurturing, and communicating to be quite
interesting if they have developed patience.
I have seen the claim (which I can't evaluate, not having played any of
them) that Purple Moon failed because its games were, in final analysis, not
that interesting.
> The single biggest explanation for why game companies don't
> aim at girls,
> though, is that they really don't know how.
Game companies are 95% male, and also 95% under the age of 30.
It's also self-fulfilling marketing--females don't tend to frequent the
retail channels that games are delivered by, and don't consider themselves
to be in the target market and therefore do not seek out product...
-Raph
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- Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article, (continued)
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article,
Cynbe ru Taren cynbe#muq,org, Tue 31 Aug 1999, 17:51 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Tue 31 Aug 1999, 19:24 GMT
- RE: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article,
Koster, Raph rkoster#origin,ea.com, Tue 31 Aug 1999, 22:39 GMT
- Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article,
Willowreed Willowreed#aol,com, Tue 07 Sep 1999, 18:02 GMT
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