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Game Designers Lack An X Chromosome

Posted by Zonk on from the point-of-view dept.

heartless_ writes "GamerGod is running a response to a recent Chris Crawford article discussing Women and Gaming. The problem with identifying winning game elements lies not in the efforts of the game makers themselves; they can only work with what they have. It lies in the fact that most game developers lack one thing - the elusive extra X chromosome. As a result, we have men trying to decide what women most want to play." We linked to Crawford's piece when it was originally run.

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  1. a real double standard by artifex2004 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When people talk about how maybe there aren't greater numbers of women in engineering and science disciplines because they may think a bit differently, they get censured, lose tenure, and even get fired. But it's okay to say that male programmers can't make videogames that women would like, because they think a bit differently from women?

  2. Makes perfect sense. by Sj0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It makes perfect sense. Frankly, it's about time someone pointed this out, even.

    If women want games for women, they should get out there and make some games for women. Demanding men create games suitable for women is simply regressive.

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