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...afraid to be creative. Puns are always in order, as demonstrated by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's "Women's Studies 124: Pens and Needles: Needlework in History and Literature." Pretty punny...
...biggest mistake game developers make, Laurel believes, is misunderstanding why girls don't like Doom and Quake and other so-called boys' games. It's not just that most girls are appalled by the brutal violence--they certainly are--but also that they resent the programmers' assumption that these games are too difficult for girls to play. "The industry said, 'Make it easier,'" says Laurel. "'Throw marshmallows at Barbie, make the projectiles move more slowly.'" But dumbing down, she insists, is precisely the wrong way to go. Girls don't think boys' games are too hard; they think they...
...Purple Moon's strategy is to give girls what they need and don't get nearly enough of: a chance to use play to deal with the issues they face in their increasingly complex emotional lives. "We call the age between childhood and adolescence the Two-Headed Girl," says Laurel. "On the one hand you're constructing your social persona, and on the other hand you're constructing your inner self, finding out what you value and how your emotions work. Those two sides don't talk to each other very well...
...Purple Moon built two games that do. In Rockett's First Day (the first of a series), carrot-topped Rockett steers through the treacherous shoals of junior high using a storytelling strategy Laurel calls "emotional navigation." Players decide how to interact with other characters, guiding and shaping the story based on how they think Rockett is feeling about a given situation. As a bonus, Rockett can even sneak peeks into her classmates' lockers...
...Purple Moon Website. "Every character," Deyo promises, "will write and publish her own Web page." One girl named Whitney, for instance, comes across in the Rockett games as kind of a...well, let's just say it rhymes with witch. "But we learn in the tree house," Laurel adds reassuringly, "that her parents are divorced and she misses her mom, and there are some issues there that she really needs help with...