[casual_games] Why We Need Women

[Arthur Humphrey]

Actually Will Wright has made it well known that much of his most 
successful designs are tempered by the touch of a female co-designer. If I 
am not mistaken (which is always likely), Chris Trottier co-designed the 
Sims, for example, adding her own perspective to what might have otherwise 
been a very different game.

As some of you know, Carla co-designs the games with me here at LDW, and it 
certainly brings things to the table that I would _never_ have considered.

Arthur Humphrey
Last Day of Work

At 04:04 PM 1/11/2007 -0800, you wrote:

>Will Wright is a man? That's your rebuttal? The point is not that you 

>should invest time and money in unproven talent, but that we should try 

>harder to help groom that talent so that it will, one day, BE proven.

>

>

>----------

>From: Robert Headley [mailto:Rheadley at op-games.com]

>Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:00 PM

>To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List

>Subject: Re: [casual_games] Why We Need Women

>

>A lot of big budget game developers like Epic Games (gears of War, Unreal 

>series) and HumanHead (Prey, Rune) have profited well from recruiting from 

>their fanbase, lets not rule the idea out, but I guess that depends on 

>your fanbase.

>

>On 1/11/07, Lennard Feddersen 

><<mailto:Lennard at rustyaxe.com>Lennard at rustyaxe.com> wrote:

>I was a huge fan of The Police - I knew all of the words - but I don't

>think it would have gone well for Stewart and Andy if I had filled in

>for Sting when he left.

>

>My last corporate gig had a quote on the wall attributed to one of the

>bigs (think herd of sheep if you are curious) at one of the online

>companies that said, in colorful terms, what we want to know from our

>fan base is their credit card number.  A little callous but it got a

>real lol from me.

>

>Let's say I have a 200K budget for my next opus.  Should I spend 50K of

>that on an unproven person with no credentials or background?  You can

>recruit people out of your fan base if you want.   Sometimes it is going

>to work out.  I would suggest that using somebody more experienced to

>make a good bet and then using a focus group on the result is a more

>efficient use of money.

>

>BTW, Will Wright is a man.

>

>Peace,

>

>Lennard Feddersen

>CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.

><http://www.RustyAxe.com>www.RustyAxe.com

>

><mailto:Lennard at RustyAxe.com>Lennard at RustyAxe.com

>P. 250-635-7623 F. 1-309-422-2466

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>

>

>

>Robert Headley wrote:

> > I agree, to a certain extent. Liking or being good at gaming.. does

> > not particularly lend itself well to game design. It can tho.

> >

> > Game designers that don't actually play theirs or anyone elses games,

> > is probably a singularly male trait.

> >

> > Whats the figure....60% of all casual games purchased are purchased by

> > women, might actually be higher, we certainly need more female input

> > on game design. Sims is the highest selling game of all time, because

> > it appealed to women.

> >

> > On 1/11/07, *Lennard Feddersen* < 

> <mailto:Lennard at rustyaxe.com>Lennard at rustyaxe.com

> > <mailto:Lennard at rustyaxe.com>> wrote:

> >

> >     What happened to Jinx?

> >

> >     Lennard Feddersen

> >     CEO, Rusty Axe Games, Inc.

> >     <http://www.RustyAxe.com>www.RustyAxe.com <http://www.RustyAxe.com>

> >

> >     <mailto:Lennard at RustyAxe.com>Lennard at RustyAxe.com 

> <mailto:Lennard at RustyAxe.com>

> >     P. 250-635-7623 F. 1-309-422-2466

> >     P. July & August 518-863-2317

> >     5014 Walsh, Terrace, BC, Canada, V8G-4H2

> >

> >

> >

> >     Brian Robbins wrote:

> >     > There's a great editorial by Vinny Carella up on Gamezebo today

> >     > entitled "Why We Need Women"

> >     > 

> <http://www.gamezebo.com/2007/01/why_we_need_women.html>http://www.gamezebo.com/2007/01/why_we_need_women.html

> >     >

> >     > I'd love to know what people think of this. Is Vinny right, or

> >     is he

> >     > way off target?

> >     >

> >     >

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