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Bug#740904: ITP: glamour -- beautiful 2D game with princesses for young girls



On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 01:34 +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> 2014-03-09 1:31 GMT+01:00 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> 
> >> In this beautiful strategy game targeted to girls age 8 to 12, each
> >> participant will take control of a princess from a fairy tale. You
> >> must walk through the kingdom collecting shoes, dresses and makeup
> >> to use at the balls, but must be careful: the fashion is always changing.
> > [...]
> >
> > This really sounds horribly stereotyped.  (Though I'm sure we already
> > have other games that are similarly problematic in other ways.)
> >
> > Please, at least let people decide for themselves who it's for?
> 
> I've already changed it to "to kids age 8 to 12". Do you think I
> should also remove a reference to th age target, or just the gendered
> one?

I can see that may be a useful clue to difficulty.  Thanks.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

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