webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
I wish I had the money to hire people to make the game I want. I think I might try to learn coding a bit this year to see if I can make something up like a demo.
I wish I had the money to hire people to make the game I want. I think I might try to learn coding a bit this year to see if I can make something up like a demo.
We've all been there. I have a big list of game ideas on my phone.
Women significantly outnumber teenage boys in gamer demographics
Adult female gamers have unseated boys under the age of 18 as the largest video game-playing demographic in the U.S., according to a recently published study from the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group focused the U.S. gaming industry.
While men still account for the majority of the U.S. gaming population, the number of women playing games on both consoles and mobile devices is up to 48 percent, from 40 percent in 2010.
The spike in the number female gamers is likely tied to widespread smartphone adoption.
Adolescent boys are widely considered to be one of, if not the most, sought-after demographic by game development studios, but the uptick of female gamers could be a signal of changes to come. Mobile ad firm Flurry Analytics found that on on the whole, women presented a much larger value proposition to game developers in terms of revenue and brand engagement.
Simulation games like “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” and “Candy Crush Saga” make headlines for the massive amounts of revenue that they manage to rake in, but the kinds of games that women are playing were found to vary widely, including endless runner games such as “Temple Run,” brain teasers such as “QuizUp” and traditional card games.
Surveying its own ad platform that is deployed across a wide variety of games of mobile games, Flurry found that on average, women spent 31 percent more money on in-app purchases and 35 percent more time within mobile games as compared to their male counterparts. Moreover, women committed themselves to a particular game and stuck with it. Globally, women came back to the games that they had chosen to play 42 percent more often over a seven-day period.
Another one
52% of gamers are women – but the industry doesn’t know it
A study published on Wednesday by the Internet Advertising Bureau reveals that 52% of the gaming audience is made up of women. That’s right – the majority of people playing games are women.
Does this surprise you? It shouldn’t. Three years ago that figure was 49%, which is hardly a trifling minority. Women have always played games, and in recent years the growth of the mobile games industry in particular has been driven by a female consumer base.
What do we think when we think of a videogame? Most likely a multimillion dollar console title dripping with machismo and bristling with weaponry. Yet the reality is that the most popular gaming device today is the smartphone, and the most popular genres are puzzle, trivia and word games. Less Call of Duty and more Words With Friends.
Now, there will be many who respond to this shift in the marketplace with the objection “but those aren’t proper games”. Mobile games, free-to-play games, social games – all games which, strangely enough, appeal to women in droves – are considered somehow lesser by many in the “traditional” gaming world.
Look at the dismissive responses to the wildly profitable mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood – it’s hard to separate judgments of the game itself from judgments of the kind of person that plays it. It’s no mistake that the Telegraph put its review of the game in the “Women’s Life” section rather than “Tech”.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I wish games had volume presets. It's not a big deal, but I would love it if there was a single button I could press to turn off the music and lower the volume by 50% when I want to play a game while watching a video on a second monitor, and then switch it back when I want to play a game while listening to an audiobook on my phone.
the fact that an article about a mobile game can accumulate 227 comments in a day is a big part of why quality mobile coverage is so scant - you think normal games discourse is explosive? try taking mobile f2p seriously and see what happens
and it sucks because mobile gaming communities are one of the few place that are relatively safe for women, low-income, and lgbtq gamers. but gaming media at large is not equipped to protect those who do the best work in this beat.
Comes off as "Won't anybody think of how much the casinos are safe spaces for old people they make their money off of?"
I hate this so much, holy shit.
The first tweet is all but admitting that the articles are rage bait. Any writer for an online publication who complains about getting viral, explosive engagement is probably lying, especially if their complaint is purely about the levels of engagement and not tanking their brand or specific harassment.
The second tweet, though, is worse, because after basically admitting they wrote a rage-bait article, they're weaponizing minorities to protect their shitty take! If you actually care about women, LGBTQ+ people, and impoverished or underrepresented gamers, don't tie them to your shitty ragebait article defending casinos!
I ate an engineer
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LasbrookIt takes a lot to make a stewWhen it comes to me and youRegistered Userregular
Rusty’s is real good, I wanna say you meet his kids at one point and/or buy games off them too?
I should pay Rusty a visit to see if I still need to buy any of those. I remember the mini games actually being really fun.
Fired this up and he had burned his shop down trying to take remedial cooking classes AND his kids had drove his truck into his shop.
Went back and started watching the prologue and I had forgotten the mini games you buy are bootleg famicom cartridges by “Nontendo” he had invested his savings into because kids these days don’t buy sports equipment like they used to.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Rusty’s is real good, I wanna say you meet his kids at one point and/or buy games off them too?
I should pay Rusty a visit to see if I still need to buy any of those. I remember the mini games actually being really fun.
Fired this up and he had burned his shop down trying to take remedial cooking classes AND his kids had drove his truck into his shop.
Went back and started watching the prologue and I had forgotten the mini games you buy are bootleg famicom cartridges by “Nontendo” he had invested his savings into because kids these days don’t buy sports equipment like they used to.
I cannot tell if this is satire or not
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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We've all been there. I have a big list of game ideas on my phone.
So they can purchase stuff easily on phones that the companies made as easy for children to purchase stuff on as possible.
I hate this so much, holy shit.
The first tweet is all but admitting that the articles are rage bait. Any writer for an online publication who complains about getting viral, explosive engagement is probably lying, especially if their complaint is purely about the levels of engagement and not tanking their brand or specific harassment.
The second tweet, though, is worse, because after basically admitting they wrote a rage-bait article, they're weaponizing minorities to protect their shitty take! If you actually care about women, LGBTQ+ people, and impoverished or underrepresented gamers, don't tie them to your shitty ragebait article defending casinos!
Fired this up and he had burned his shop down trying to take remedial cooking classes AND his kids had drove his truck into his shop.
Went back and started watching the prologue and I had forgotten the mini games you buy are bootleg famicom cartridges by “Nontendo” he had invested his savings into because kids these days don’t buy sports equipment like they used to.
Steam
Because they tell their parents what the want.
I cannot tell if this is satire or not