I've had this thought recently about gaming and how it's perceived.
Over the past couple of years, gaming has become as mainstream as film, books and most other art forms. As it has become more accessible and another alternative for evenings in, I'm wondering on how it affects the women in a relationship, or the female gamer.
I don't know many avid female gamers. I know one or two who will casually play games, or have their own specific games or game types they stick to rigidly.
If any women would like to take the time to comment with the answers to the following questions, I'd be most grateful:
What is your favourite character from a game, or gaming series?
Which console(s) do you own?
What game, or gaming series do you enjoy most?
Which type of game do you enjoy most? (E.g. Racing, Sports, RPG, FPS etc)
Do you play games more than your partner or male friends?
Have any games given you an emotional reaction? If yes, which one one(s), and what happened?
Do you believe women in games are undervalued or just sexualised?
Are there enough avenues for women to get into the gaming community?
Do you have a idea for a game which you think would sell really well?
Feel free to add anything I may have missed.
I'm hoping to find some interesting results to my questions.
in answer to that comment about games becoming more mainstream and how does it effect relationships, from my point of view and several others whom i've talked to it appears that instead of the old football widows we now have a new breed of widow that of the gamers, as with football it is something which holds a mysterious pull for you guys and although we kind of understand it we do not truly understand it.
ReplyDeleteinstead of silently sitting by and watching football and getting confused with the off side rule, we're now not so silently sitting by and watching our guys game or being on laptop on social networking sites, so in a way games bring us together and at the same time seperate us.
does that make any sense?