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<LI><em>From</em>: Cynbe ru Taren <<A HREF="mailto:cynbe#muq,org">cynbe#muq,org</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 12:32:32 -0500</LI>
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| rezo#darkstar,qx.net wrote:
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| On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Marian Griffith wrote:
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| > There is no such thing as an emergent girl game market. There is only the
| > anti-girl marketing.
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| Those two paragraphs just summed up why few game designers aim for the
| female market. It is a hard target.
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| [...]
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| The single biggest explanation for why game companies don't aim at girls,
| though, is that they really don't know how. Marketing 101 tells you that if
| they could make a game guaranteed to sell 100,000 copies to girls they
| would.
|
| Sterling @ Wyld Knight
Remember Purple Moon? My wife's thesis advisor was a principal, and our hedgehogs
modelled for one game.
Purple Moon wrote specifically for the female gamer market (the name was picked as
deliberate "anti-boy marketing", to adapt Marian's phrase) and the principals lacked
neither smarts nor motivation.
My guess is that "It is a hard target." hits it right on the nose.
Cynbe
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00186" HREF="msg00186.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
Laurel Fan <a href="mailto:lf25+@andrew.cmu.edu">lf25+@andrew.cmu.edu</a>, Fri 03 Sep 1999, 18:22 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00207" HREF="msg00207.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Sat 04 Sep 1999, 19:24 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00210" HREF="msg00210.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00156" HREF="msg00156.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00163" HREF="msg00163.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00165" HREF="msg00165.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Tue 31 Aug 1999, 19:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00191" HREF="msg00191.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Fri 03 Sep 1999, 18:17 GMT
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