August 1999
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Nathan F Yospe
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Jon A. Lambert
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Marian Griffith
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Jeremy Music "Sterling"
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Cynbe ru Taren
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Matthew Mihaly
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Koster, Raph
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Laurel Fan
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Willowreed@aol.com
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Albert
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Koster, Raph
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Adam Wiggins
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Marian Griffith
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Marian Griffith
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Matthew Mihaly
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Adam Wiggins
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Matthew Mihaly
On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Adam Wiggins wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Matthew Mihaly wrote:
> > I suspect that if marketers and designers thought their main target are
> > 16-25 year old men, Lara Croft wouldn't have become a household name.
>
> Although one might point out that the success of Tomb Raider was due
> in no small part to the large female audience it attracted. Between
> gameplay oriented more around exploration and puzzle solving (rather than
> constant Quake-like violence) and a very strong female lead character,
> it drew quite a large female audience.
Lara Croft was just an example really. Look at games like Duke Nuke 'Em,
with the frequent scantily clad women.
>
> > Those large breasts aren't there to appeal to homosexual men.
>
>
> Would you say that Spiderman was designed to appeal to women because of
> his buldging muscles and tight outfit, or that Batman was designed to
> appeal to homosexual men because of his latex outfit and prominent
> codpiece? Hardly so. That's just the style. (It may appeal to those
> markets as a side-effect, but comic book readers are still largely
> preteens who are not even very aware of such obvious sexuality just yet.)
Well, no. I'd say spiderman, et al's muscles are there to appeal to the
pale male nerds who wish they were more buff. Also, core demographics for
comic books are older male teenagers, and younger male 20 somethings.
--matt
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Marian Griffith
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Marian Griffith
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- Game design and gender: An interesting article Greg Miller
- question about tile-based games Chris Gray
- question about tile-based games Scott Boding
- question about tile-based games Jeremy Music "Sterling"
- question about tile-based games Katrina McClelan
- question about tile-based games Caliban Tiresias Darklock
- question about tile-based games Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt
- question about tile-based games Chris Gray
- question about tile-based games AR Schleicher
- question about tile-based games Wes Connell
- question about tile-based games AR Schleicher
- question about tile-based games Wes Connell
- Mud Census? Timothy O'Neill Dang
- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Par Winzell
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- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Matthew Mihaly
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- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Matthew Mihaly
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- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Koster, Raph
- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Koster, Raph
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- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Greg Miller
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- MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs Matthew Mihaly
- Designing fun sims. (was MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #142 - 4 msgs) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
- The Best Guy on the Mud Thing Dundee
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- The Best Guy on the Mud Thing Wes Connell
- The Best Guy on the Mud Thing Matthew Mihaly
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- The Best Guy on the Mud Thing Adam Wiggins
- The Best Guy on the Mud Thing Ilya, Game Commandos
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- The Best Guy on the Mud Thing Laurel Fan
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- The Best Guy on the Mud Thing J C Lawrence
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