It's been a women in games kind of day today. Along with Emma Westecott, researcher and Women in Games Conference organiser, I spoke to Woman's Hour about what keeps women from gaming. Then we rushed back to the University of Newport to grab the tail end of "woman gamer" Alice Taylor's conference talk, Games and Public Service. Here are her notes from yesterday's keynote. I also ate some delicious gingerbread biscuits made by the woman Catmoo, one in the shape of objects from the games Loco Roco and Legend of Zelda.
The best thing of the day thus far was Annie Spencer's slide show of many of the most contentious and controversial games available. See? We don't just complain about Lara Croft's assets.
Most are not safe for work. All are worth knowing about:
911 Survivor (Jeff Cole, Mike Caloud, John Brennon) Anti-Bush game (Starving Eyes) Kaboom: The Suicide Bombing game (fabulous999+at+yahoo.ca) Nene Suicide Girl (Tom Fulp) Border Patrol (Tom Metzger) Super Columbine Massacre RPG (Danny Ledonne) Eyewitness (Hong Kong Polytecjhnic Student Project) Global Conflicts: Palestine (serious games) Pax Warrior (223 YYZee Studios) Darfur is Dying (Cazaux, Jackson, Keating, Ruiz, Satiago, Stein, Treung, York) McDonald's I'm Playin' It (Molliendustria) Subservient Chicken (Burger King) Sextris Queer Power (Mollieindustria) Left Behind: Eternal Forces (Left Behind Games) Second Life (Linden Lab) Dashwood Dungeon (Ms. Cheri Horton) Shangai Gallery (Annie Spencer, Faustine Faubery, CFC media lab)
