We recently discussed gender in computer games, the people who make them and play them...
With the data on 'Today's Gamers' United Kingdom National Gamers Survey 2009, I found out that males out number females for playing more hours of games, using consoles and PCs, at all age levels, except females do play more games on portals (a portal is a game which is on a website, allowing to play in your Internet browser or gives you link to a game and other things, for example msn.com is a portal site)
I decided to try out a game which is designed for females so I tried 'Cake Mania 2' (http://www.games.com/game-play/cake-mania-2/single/)
The game is part strategy, part reaction time and part memory based. The aim of the game is to make cakes which customers come into your shop by making the base, icing and decorations, theres lots of different combinations and it is easy to start making the wrong thing and then you are forced to throw it away, causing a lose in profit and making it take longer to buy upgrades for iceig machines, buying new machine and buying a cake stand.
The gqame was quite fast paced and by the end i had built up a very effitient system, which did go wrong a few times but i did actually enjoy the game and want to play more. I like that you can choose what possible iceings and bases they can order, by only buying the machines that produce those things.
I checked out what a girl gamer website is like, i didnt realise that everyother game review i had read before was JUST for men, its ironic that it is cool for females to like male games but its very strange if a male likes a female game but of course this happens all the time, different people brains prefer different puzzles.
The game sites I visited were written very friendly and not very sarcastic and over the top like some reviews I had read before, also the websites were not updated as often as many sites i use.
Another problem was that the websites did not actually review or mention some amazing games that have been released and I wouldn't personally class them as male aimed games and of course, when you start ignoring some of the market then you will completely lose the comparisons between games and it will be harder to tell which is actually better, its almost like the reviewers and games companies are telling us what we can and cannot buy.
the female gamers websites i visited were:
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