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04-02-2014, 09:40 PM
More Women Game Developers Means More Success, 'Animal Crossing' Director Says
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Who are video games for, exactly?
It's a question that games and developers have wrestled with through the decades. While glitzy marketing campaigns for first-person shooters like Call of Duty amplify the message that gaming is dominated by males out for blood, a different narrative is being painted by Nintendo.
See also: Nintendo Mulling Mobile Apps as Part of Recovery Plan (http://mashable.com/2014/01/30/nintendo-mobile-apps-gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Last year, the Japanese game maker sold millions of copies of its city-building franchise Animal Crossing: New Leaf. It helped raise Nintendo's stock this summer (http://mashable.com/2013/07/23/nintendo-stock-rising/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)*after a rocky launch in 2011.
One of its directors, Aya Kyogoku, called the ****** part of its own genre: inclusionary games. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/02/animal-crossing-gender-gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Who are video games for, exactly?
It's a question that games and developers have wrestled with through the decades. While glitzy marketing campaigns for first-person shooters like Call of Duty amplify the message that gaming is dominated by males out for blood, a different narrative is being painted by Nintendo.
See also: Nintendo Mulling Mobile Apps as Part of Recovery Plan (http://mashable.com/2014/01/30/nintendo-mobile-apps-gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Last year, the Japanese game maker sold millions of copies of its city-building franchise Animal Crossing: New Leaf. It helped raise Nintendo's stock this summer (http://mashable.com/2013/07/23/nintendo-stock-rising/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)*after a rocky launch in 2011.
One of its directors, Aya Kyogoku, called the ****** part of its own genre: inclusionary games. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/02/animal-crossing-gender-gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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