Young women perfer to play free game online

Young women perfer to play free game online. University of Texas study looks at girls and video games Among the findings (I only report ‘em folks, I don’t write ‘em):

Many game programmers and artists do not want to work on ‘girl’ games or serious games.
Those who are willing to try have an extremely difficult time thinking ‘girl.’
[Games for girls need] to be nonviolent with lots of role playing, age appropriate adventure, a peaceful buildup and a rewarding conclusion.
Despite reports of its demise, social satire LIVES! Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble is an RPG where “good girls get better by being bad!”:
Steal into the underbelly of your hometown. Confront oppressive adults and malicious peers. Defeat their avarice with naughty little games. Win useful tools like lip rouge, crowbars, boyfriends, and cigarette lighters.

Halo 3 leaves girl gamers in the dark:
A game doesn’t have to be packaged into a Bubble Gum Pink case with purple and yellow flowers everywhere for girls to like it. All it has to do is have a little feminine appeal. Here are some ways Microsoft and Bungie could have turned on the light for Girl Gamers while keeping up their image with the fanboys…More
The Official Shrub.com blog has created “Geek girl” stereotype Bingo, a scorecard for use whenever you come across an article or blog post dealing with women and gaming, technology, science, etc.

“It’s Just a Game” from the Feminist Gamers blog addresses why sexism in video games matters:
Sexism in videogames may not be the most crucial issue on the top of the feminist agenda, but it’s not entirely unimportant, either. And to be told that there are areas of our culture that should be magically exempted from feminist critiques is a request that smacks of desperation.
Two essays (among others) from The Escapist deal with women in games. In Women Monsters and Monstrous Women, Bonnie Ruberg addresses the question of representation:
Should we be pushing for equal representation as the gaming other in the same way we push for equal representation as the gaming self? Why do only men get to be the bad guys? We still have to keep in mind that most gamers are male. Do we really want to provide more women for them to hunt down and kill? Of course it looks bad, but in the end, is it really any worse than killing men? These issues, while important, remain relatively unexplored. Like many questions of gender equality, they have no easy answers.

In Holding Out for a Heroine, Erin Hoffman has a dream:
Somewhere in the uncharted plains of videogame potential, in the wild primal cloud of yet-nascent human ideas, is my perfect heroine. I don’t know what she looks like or where she’s from, but I know she’s a manifestation of despair and triumph, of trial and overcoming, of badass throw-down and ephemeral grace. She’s a creature of fire and passion tempered by intellect, of depth and history and complexity. She will surprise me and challenge me, and when we bring down her arch-nemesis - perhaps a phantom from her past, perhaps a threat to all she stands for - our unified victory will be unmatched; the world will echo with the lamentation of our fallen foes.

And I know she has never seen life on the screen.
Finally, Girl in the Machine has a fascinating piece called Live in Purity and then Die which analyzes the PS2 game Fatal Frame (AKA Project Zero):

Fatal Frame is, in my opinion, one of the most terrifying experiences on the Playstation 2, beating its two sequels by a landslide when it comes to scares. Its estrogen-enriched cast is one of its many perks, and a storyline that details young women overcoming the cruelty brought upon them by old, superstitious tradition is a more than relevant parallel to the experiences of women today.

As I said, these merely scratch the surface, but I hope they’re a useful snapshot. If game designers were half as interested in these questions as bloggers, I wonder how different the video game landscape would look.

Young Girl Students like to play online games. (Editting by Elizabeth Zhang)

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