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<LI><em>From</em>: Ben Greear <<A HREF="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:04:39 -0700</LI>
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Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
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> On 03:12 PM 8/31/1999 -0700, I personally witnessed Matthew Mihaly jumping
> up to say:
> >On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> >
> >> On 07:43 AM 8/31/1999 -0400, I personally witnessed Jeremy Music
> >> \"Sterling\" jumping up to say:
> >> >
> >> >On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Marian Griffith wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> There is no such thing as an emergent girl game market. There is only the
> >> >> anti-girl marketing.
> >>
> >> Not true. A large number of companies have been formed rather recently with
> >> the specific aim of making computer games for girls. How well they are
> >> doing and whether they will survive is a whole different question.
> >
> >That doesn't mean there is an emergent girl game market.
>
> There exists a market for games whose audience consists primarily of girls,
> which can be effectively termed a "girl game market". This market has been
> recognised for quite some time, but is only now receiving serious
> attention. And this is precisely what "emergent" means.
>
I believe one such company was called something like Purple Moon. It recently
went bankrupt and was absorbed by the barbie folks (that's gotta hurt yer
pride!!). I remember reading a lot
of articles a year or two ago about 'games for girls'... It acually seems like
there is less hype about it now. Kinda like push content and portals :)
That doesn't mean that companies that could produce a cross-gender game (Myst??)
wouldn't do great, but targeting one gender specifically may get you in
trouble...
Ben
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00154" HREF="msg00154.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
Jeremy Music \"Sterling\ <a href="mailto:rezo#lords,com">rezo#lords,com</a>, Tue 31 Aug 1999, 17:06 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00170" HREF="msg00170.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00180" HREF="msg00180.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00182" HREF="msg00182.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Wed 01 Sep 1999, 05:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00188" HREF="msg00188.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00207" HREF="msg00207.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game design and gender: An interesting article</A></strong>,
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