Sg2009wc:gaming

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Title: Gaming

Session: 1-I Bay Area Jan 2009

Convener: Veronica/Zoop

Attendees:

• Veronica Tegen
• Ei-Nyung
• Kim Flournoy
• Ealasaid Haas
• Melanie Swan
• Christine Bush
• Stephanie Bergman
• Liz Henry
• Joyce Kim
• Amy Graham

Notes:

Introductions - talking about our experience / fanaticism in gaming, etc. Some serious gamer geeks here, woo. Every sort of gamer from Go to SCRABBLE to table-top gaming to Magic to Rock Band to Warcraft... excitement about Diablo 3

What do we want to talk about?

SCRABBLE is awesome but lacks community, even on Facebook, wtf? Casual gamespace is perceived as aimed at women and a lot of the sites are scammy. Ew.

Ei-Nyung has young nieces and it's so hard to find games that aren't condescending!

Tabletop board gaming is often gender balanced but hasn't made it online, most of it.

Companies don't want to take a risk, and somehow female-friendly stuff is a risk.

A ton of new games are basically clones of what has gone before. Disappointing! Girl gaming movement was so lame, people are glad many of the lame companies have gone out of business. Conversation about the effort people of whatever gender put into avatars - changing hair, etc etc. Even guys do it!

Wouldn't it be awesome to have something like the IMDb but for gaming??? that would be great.

gamefaqs.com - great content, crap design defectiveyeti - game review site board-games.alltop.com

best communities are the heavily-moderated ones

Flash games - because they're free and short, how many review sites are there?

It's now part of kid culture wildpockets.com - they have a game engine going into open beta, great for the casual game space! Kongregate - aggregates flash games from other sites. Can rate and rank 'em, do reccommendations, etc.

Cheaper to be a gamer than go out, even with the cost of a console and the games.

Harnessing games for good, making them awesome but also educational! How to do that without messing up the lore of the game? First person shooter: antibodies vs viruses, frex.

Adventures in Synthetic Biology graphic novel passed aorund. Awesome!

Spore - thoughts?

• Creature creation seemed really awesome when it was first announced.
• Lots of people boycotting it because of the DRM

Advertising in games?

• Good if the user gets something (like lower price of game or something)

Notes sent by Ealasaid A. Haas