Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Nah. We're going to make racing games. Forever!!!

My thoughts about porn/sexism in games. It's a male dominated industry. That isn't going to change until you get women interested in *at least* playing games. And that isn't going to happen until people start producing games that a) aren't aimed at children, b) are marketed to people other than teenage boys and c) women kick their sons/boyfriends/brothers/husbands off the console/pc.

Women don't play games cause the men who plunge money into "Barbie's Shopping Adventure" et al don't realise that games aimed at the male/general market are generally playable by all ages, whereas games aimed at the female market are aimed at a very small niche, eg 8-10 or 11-13 age group. Women don't play these games cause - well - they're aimed at vacuous american spoilt pre-teens who think that choosing between a pair of rhinestone encrusted jeans in pink or purple denim constitutes a demanding intellectual exercise.
Another reason is that being female does not constitute a character type. "Yeah, there's Joe, he's a demolitions expert, Mike, he's an ex marine, Agamemnon, he's a cyborg with big trousers, and Jane. She's a girl..." With big tits, obviously.

*mutters something about having dark thoughts and wanders off, presumably to hit someone over the head and drag them back to her office*

Which link doesn't work, the cat lovers link or Plif? or is it that you're just bog, billyjoe? ;-)

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