Getting Girls Into Games
The most frustrating thing for me as a gamer is there are so few games that are appealing. The games that are meant to be for the female market concentrate on things like shopping, talking to friends or being a veterinarian. I’m an adult female. I don’t care about shopping for clothes, choosing a career, or talking to friends at school. I also don’t care about killing enemies or racing fast cars.
Strangely, my favorite game, Animal Crossing: Wild World, IS about shopping, talking to little animals and crossbreeding flowers. How did Nintendo capture my fancy, while the Bratz series just makes me angry?
It’s the writing.
Animal Crossing is one of THE best written games I’ve ever played. I keep playing for the writing. When is the gaming industry going to realize that writing is THE most essential element? It is far more important than realistic graphics or physics. As soon as the gaming industry learns that they need to involve writers BEFORE they start programming the game, they will be able to capture the female market, or at least me.