It's a shame that I haven't updated my blog for a while. Well, at least I feel bad about it. It's my intend to review almost every casual game out there, that's fun to play. There are a few ones on my list and I really need to get to them this week. For a girl who plays a lot of games, sometimes the focus is on "playing" instead of "writing".
You may ask me why waste time on reviewing games when, there are professionals like, GameSpot or Penny-Arcade (www.penny-arcade.com), who basically covered all the bases of video games. Well, don't be upset if you read the following:
GameSpot is too generic, like the standard description you found in the manual of your new LCD TV.
Penny-Arcade is personal enough and many people found it quite funny. Yet, I have no clues on what they are saying, with their dry humor and somewhat "street" language.
I'm not being cynical because I'm not an US Diplomat at my day job. See? Do you get the dry humor part?? With a few scatches or comics, which I found hard to understand, will never get girls or female gamers to read their posts. Alright, I respect them because there must be millions of 13 - 35 male gamers / non gamers read their articles everyday.
But I found it sad that there is no such thing as "penny-arcade for girls" on the web, when all it takes is just a few girls who are humorous, can write complete sentences, play games occaisionally and used to draw comical figures of professors during college. I wonder how the game industry is going to survive if our demographic changes drastically: baby girls birth rate overrides baby boys. That will be game developers worst nightmare.
I did see a few articles about attracting female to the game industry, which may help to add some "chick" flair into games in the future. How soon will the balance of male and female (the yin and the yang) be achieved in the game industry? According to the current speed of female workers joining the industry, it will be as soon as we can immigrate from earth to Jupiter. =)
I recently had dinner with an IT Manager of the company I work for. He is a father of two, whose daughter (16) is in to website building for tennis stars, and whose son (17) is into games. That basically says it's a very normal family. He almost fell off his chair when I told him that I'm in to games and I'm a casual game review editor. The reason I mentioned this is that the culture that I'm in, is a barrier for even admitting that I'm into games. It almost make me feel that I am committing some sort of taboo.
I don't know how they are going to solve this problem. Since I see it this way:
games are male oriented --> so girls not interested in games overall --> few female developers --> games are more male oriented --> less girls interested in games --> less female developers --> games are even more male oriented --> ...infinite loop
Wow, now I feel like I'm the only mutan who can save the world... =P
Alright, I have no more space to review Mystic Inn. I will do that in my next post.
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