Female Playboy Game Designer Takes 'High Road'

Thanks to Warcry.com for its three-part interview with Playboy: The Mansion lead developer Brenda Brathwaite. She discusses the Sims-like gameplay of the multi-platform title in development at Cyberlore, arguing: "I think I have an advantage as a heterosexual woman in that Playboy just wasn't part of my past: I was able to approach it from a brand-new angle... I can flip through those magazines and not have it effect me in the same way that it would clearly affect a heterosexual male." She concludes: "We go through and take a comparatively high road with this game, and show you a little of what it takes to build the Playboy empire, and what has happened historically. That was the challenge."

Comments

here goes my Karma...

[howman]

If the game has T&A... It will sell... Highroad, angles or storyline aside...

Re:here goes my Karma...

[Blakey Rat]

Oh yeah. Just like BMX XXX, right? Oh... wait... I guess gamers *do* have a sense of taste that's more mature than "boobies = good." Don't be such a cynic.

yeah, my emotions arfe uncontrollable

[DrSkwid]

Good to know that she thinks that it is impossible for me to dispassionately look at pornographic images. Jeesh.

That must be why the porn industry is run by gay guys and hetro women !

Re:yeah, my emotions arfe uncontrollable

[Anonymous Coward]

All that says is that you've probably looked at so much porn you're desensitized at this point. I imagine you've moved on to snuff films, right?

Re:Hmm

[Babbster]

Running a railroad sounds even more boring. The Railroad Tycoon series rocks. I think you need to expand your gaming horizons a bit.

Unaffected?

[Reapy]

I can flip through those magazines and not have it effect me in the same way that it would clearly affect a heterosexual male.

Right, women can handle magazine images and models much better then men. Really, they won't think their breasts are too small, thighs too fat, stomach not toned enough. No way, it's not like it might help them along the path to an eating disorder or anything. Yup, most women sure aren't effected by the pictures...

Re:Unaffected?

[Jad LaFields]

And the thing is, other than enormous breasts and perfect skin, Playboy models have body shapes much closer to that of a healthy, 'normal' woman than those stick-thin models that fashion designers love to put on catwalks and splash across the pages of women's magazines.

I've always found it strange and a bit sad that women seem to put up even more unobtainable goals for themselves than men even want them to.

Playboy isn't whats turning women into anorexics, its Cosmo.

Article has nothing on game and a bio on the woman

[kabocox]

The woman has been designing D&D type games for 20 years. I think if she's been in the industry that long; she should know what she is doing.

Actually I could care less about how Play Boy attempts to build a game. Before I ever read Play Boy, I thought that it would be 90% pictures of nude women. I was wrong it was more like 5-10% pictures of nude women. The other 90%-95% was filled with interviews, articles, and ads.

Let's face it, Play Boy, is a main stream product that is designed with pleasing the wife and/or girl friend in mind.

She thinks that being a woman gives her an edge because she wouldn't be turned on where most straight men would. I personally think that the folks that would be turned on would get over it if not the first day then in the first week. There is nothing sacred about the female body that makes it turn men on every time.

Re:If ever there was one game...

[Bastian]

It'd be interesting if the boss above her listened to marketing much. I've seen plenty of products that bear the signs of having been a good piece of softwate before the marketroids came along and eviscerated it at the last minute, and they might throw a shitfit if there's not enough T&A in a game bearing the Playboy name.