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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."
That could be ruined by heaping on T&A instead of gameplay, it was this one.
Smart move putting a woman in charge. Actually gives me hope.
So long as there's a still a "threesome in a hot tub" feature:)
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."
Duh. I'll tell you what it takes to build the Playboy empire -- a lot of affected heterosexual males flipping through those magazines. That's why this game is going to stink -- you have to know your customer.
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> 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.
There are quite a few women in this country (US) whose thighs really are too fat and whose stomach has never even heard the word "tone". Being obese and out of shape is much worse for your health than being underweight.
> No way, it's not like it might help them along
> the path to an eating disorder or anything.
Eating disorders are not caused by wanting to lose weight, but by not knowing how to do it. There should be considerably more emphasis on exercise and less on removing fat from your diet (because eating fat does not make you fat, calories make you fat, and you can eat a lot more carbohydrate calories than fat calories)
> Yup, most women sure aren't effected by the pictures...
But they should be. Yes, I know you are being sarcastic, but it is far better for women (and men, for that matter) to have a trim and fit body for a goal than to be "content" with all those jiggling extra pounds.