SXSW: Getting Girls Into The Game
March 22nd, 2007 by Ravven

Joystiq had some nice coverage of the SXSW panel “Getting Girls Into The Game: Designing and Marketing Games for Female Players“. The point was made, and made again that girls just like good games.  I dislike pigeonholing female gamers into “casual gamers” or “Sims players”.  A good game is immersive, interesting and challenging – qualities [...]

Female Gamers
March 7th, 2007 by Ravven

Rom commented with a question about female gamers.  You know what?  If I believe most articles on women in gaming, my experience is very untypical.  (Supposedly, women like casual games that they can pick up, play for a few minutes, and walk away from.)  According to my personal experience, though, there are a lot of [...]

New Girl Guild on Moonglade EU
August 16th, 2006 by Ravven

Pursuant to the post here, I’d like to invite everyone who might be interested to check out Guilded Lilies, a new all-girls alliance guild on Moonglade EU. (Yes, I spent last night on a baby lock, working on the ten silver needed for the charter – if you have a main that seemingly has gold [...]

Misc Catch-up
August 11th, 2006 by Ravven

Well, I’ve been doing a few more raids with the guild, so that makes me happier. Here’s my BWL experience so far: Dead, View of Nefarian’s ButtI’ve started a baby warrior that I really like (yes, I’m the Queen of Alts). I really, truly, abysmally suck as a tank, but she is fun. In part, [...]

Levelling
June 20th, 2006 by Ravven

Ever have someone in your guild that you really, truly despise? My warlock is level 55 now, soon to be 56, and I am finally thinking about getting serious about making the final push to 60, and attunement for MC, Onyxia, etc. I hadn’t wanted to rush it, considering that it’s all over after that [...]