Sony Online Entertainment's G.I.R.L. scholarship grants $10,000 to a student in the creative and applied arts. They're looking for someone who would promote and help create games that would be more enticing for women to play.
This year, the second ever scholarship was granted to Game & Art design student Rebecca Gleason, from Indianapolis, IN. Aside from the $10k to be applied to her education, she was also granted an optional paid internship of up to 10 weeks at SOE’s headquarters in San Diego, to work on Free Realms.
Gleason beat out over 160 other applicants, all of which were asked to submit original art and designs for levels and characters for SOE's Free Realms. They also had to submit two essays, one on their art, and the other on women in the games industry.
Congrats, Rebecca.
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10:20 AM on 08.05.2009
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Honestly, publishers need to stop labouring under this fatuous illusion that women and men want to play different games. It's nothing but unthinking subscription to outdated and useless stereotypes. I'm a female gamer, and I play everything from Gears of War to Rock Band to The Sims to StarCraft. Not because they're games to are "enticing for women to play" - or "enticing for men to play", for that matter - but because they're good games worth playing.
Although i do see the benefit of having more females involved in the industry, to help create that standard of games.
However I think it's getting old with the whole "We have to make games for girls" idea. I do find it funny that Sony have something like this,but make ads for the Hannah Montana PSP.
You don't see many multimillion dollar brothels for women, and you don't see many successful romance novels for men. Men and women are different. Deal with it. Pretending otherwise is an insult to both genders.
Honestly you're an idiot if you think that women (BROADLY LETS NOT FUCKING START CITING ANECDOTAL OUTLIERS) are going to enjoy the same sorts of violent war games guys love.
You'll find some crossovers just like you do with movies and books and music, but those are going to be rare exceptions, and there is plenty of money to be made focusing on the specific preferences of each gender.
Maybe the ideas they're going for is IDK... More "Final Fantasy"---
(@ MellowBunny
"Hannah Montana" would be HIGHLY CONCENTRATED/an EXTREME feminine/girlish game.)
---factored than "God of War/Dante's Inferno". Cause in the past, the attraction to gore and guts seems to be associated with more masculine behavior which isn't limited to one sex (sorry if I threw in some psychology in there). I mean you have to admit there is a dramatic difference between stuff like FF and GOW. It's like on the one hand 70-80% blood&violence and the other 5-10% b&v. Same goes for sex (y'know the more feminine = LESS is "nice", the more masculine = MORE is well.. aggressive Fappin'). Means sexually aggressive women is a plus (for me I just call it a healthy sexual appetite, but that's off topic...(I would so like to dominate a dominatrix cause I don't like pain. *cr@p did I say that aloud?!!!*)).
Also you might want to factor in women and men who find certain things sexist (but "that's a whole other bag of beans" (always wanted to say that)). Maybe they're looking into what makes women think certain games are sexist.
Or maybe I'm reading too much into what they're saying and they really mean generalized ideas of what women want in games.
But my POINT is men and women are each mixed of feminine and masculine, just common knowledge I felt like puttin' out there. Aside from that, good for her! I could use 10K... Gawd I just remembered I knew this one chick who loved shooter games.. so hawt (wished I asked her out...) *fuuuudGE!!! I did it again!*
if that's the case i feel like complaining.
I want another X cromosome now.