Today the girls have spent most of the day playing several games on different game consoles to get an idea of what popular games are available and what they're like. They were playing Halo, Mortal Kombat, Monkey Ball and Super Smash Brothers. After a lunch break, we talked about what audience the games were geared towards, the protrayal of male and female characters in the games and what characters the girls chose to play, and what kinds of games the girls would create if they had unlimited resources and could create any game they wanted.
The girls pointed out a number of ways that the gaming industry could enhance the gaming experience to be more inclusive, including creating more family oriented games that have various levels to challenge all members of the family, creating games that have more realistic characters, games which allow the user to design features of it (interior design, beauty, etc) rather than focusing on fighting or adventures, more learning in games, adventure games based on real travel, and games that are more user-friendly. The girls thought some of the games were hard to figure out how to control and manuever at first (especially Halo where you have to control your characters movements and camera views) and that these would be more fun if there was less of a learning curve to get started.
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