Game Designers Lack An X Chromosome

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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You cannot make 'games' that will appeal to XY

[MBraynard]

Because by it's nature, games are about rulesets and figuring out the best way to handle them. Essentially: thinking.

And women overwhelmingly avoid 'thinking' like Kevin Federline avoids class.

What you could do is create a game with a microphone, and the woman talks into the microphone, and a sympathetic AI face appears on the TV screen and just nods quietly at everything the woman says and at no time attempts to offer any solution to problems - it just quietly nods and says "Umm -hmmm".

Granted, there are some women who do enjoy these endeavors, and games made for 'men' appeal to them on the same basis they appeal to men.