Games are not Books

[cassiphone]

Originally published at tansyrr.com. You can comment here or there.

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I’m listening to the latest Sofanauts (no. 31) which is my latest obsession (in the last fortnight or so I have mainlined their entire backlist).  I’m loving the kind of discussions they have, about SF books and publishing and new media.  I occasionally arch an

Comments

[adamhenderson]

Thanks for giving us sex-crazed, gun-fetishing idiots the benefit of the doubt ;-). Looking forward to your thoughts on the article (think it's the one that Gillian mentioned earlier?), good luck with the wordcount!

[cassiphone]

hehehe. The patriarchy is bad for men too!

[adamhenderson]

Heh, indeed. But enough of this, to work! (Damn, never could get that patriachal tone quite right...)

[cassiphone]

I mock your mediocre patriarchal tone with my rebellious womanish ways!

[capnoblivious]

Do they not know about NaNoWriMo?

Isn't that one of the things killing off prose? ;)

[ashamel]

I was thinking that very thing...

[cassiphone]

snobs!

[monissaw]

Women don't play games because games aren't designed for women. Games aren't designed for women because women don't play games. Bah. :)

Although there do seem to be more out there now then there used to be (speaking as someone who's favourite games mostly run on DOS) .

Online games seems to be better at picking up female audiences. Say something like Farmville and other FB games. I'm sure there's something int here about accessibilty.

There's also a thought trying to develop about marketing categories in general. I'm sure one reason TV advertising annoys me so much is I am so not their target audience. yet there seem to be many people are are not most advertisers target audience. Lots of niche markets waiting to exploit but they all seem to go for the same fish. Silly. But then I'm not in marketing.

[cassiphone]

I think most advertising is targeted at imaginary people. It's amazing that any of it works, really.

[godiyeva]

maybe we are all more standardised than we like to believe, and the same tricks work on us all in the end... you see the ads enough, you want... just like, if you stare at goldfish long enough, they start to look tasty. Gah! Must go and write novel.

[cassiphone]

Sadly I think that more often than not, the advertising makes us THINK we should be buying into the roles it puts us in. Rather than in any way reflecting what we want.

But then that does make sense... it's not like they're on OUR side...

[lizarfau]

I liked the 1990s point and click adventures ... Gabriel Knight (named my son after him), The Last Express, Countdown etc. I haven't played games since the beginning of the decade. :(

[godiyeva]

All males are in fact teenagers, have you not noticed?

[cassiphone]

Hahaha, even your boys? That's a worry.