h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Went out of business.

Tim

I will NEVER forget Starship Titanic. Some nights, I can still hear the screams...

As long as she got lots of money for it.

I just thought that they ought to take a passing glance. I've certainly seen more debate over there about what field researchers want than I have over here. I agree that it should remain seperate.

The one thing that I've really enjoyed about h2g2 though is finding lots of people who've had little experience of the internet getting involved. It's a good place for people to try out their new found skills.

If you want a game which you don't kill randomly, try Theif: The Dark Project. The best advice you get in the manual (that is if you read it!) is to avoid the enemies and only fight them if you have to.

Just to let you all know that chocolate bribery would work for me :

Ok, I'll send you a bar of chocolate. Of course, that means I need your address, and to check to make sure you get it, I also need your phone number.

This was all a plot to fill up the pages of my little black book, you know...

Ok, so you certainly won't fall for that one, but go out and buy yourself a chocolate bar and eat it in the knowledge that we would have given it to you if we were able to do so

So as a female Shenerd, what games do you play?

It would be interesting to know the sex - and it is not always obvious- but I would really like to know the age range of contributors. It seems to cover from adolescent pimplies, to wannabe intellectual students, to 30-something professionals. Are there any really "mature" people contributing?

er...s'cuse...bludragon here

Thought I would like to skew statistics as much as possible:
not only am I female, but I am also old, I mean, really old, like older than dirt [OK so I'm old enough to be retired and a gramma]

games I like:
puzzle games like Myst and King's Quest
simulation games like Simcity
wargames that are more strategy than hacking & bashing
fantasy stuff
I also LOVE chocolate.

How to get women involved???? dunno, but I DO know that it ISN'T by trying to think up 'girly' type stuff. The women that like the virtual world and stuff like h2g2 like the same things that the men do. At least that's what I think. I hate it when there's a special place for the 'girls'. Like we were handicapped or something.

The nice thing about this place is that you DONT always know if you are talking to a man, or woman, old or young...and that makes it the most equal of all.

Oh, and you might be talking to a dragon; there are several of us wandering around the Guide. hehehe

Good point. Game designers shouldn't focus on making 'girly' stuff any moreso than they should focus on guy games. If you create a computer program that appeals to both genders, you automatically double your potential profit margin. Why game designers don't do this more often is beyond me.

Personally, I like stuff that is just flat funny. Like the Monty Python games. I love those. I wish more comedy software programs would be developed.

The Discworld CDrom game was like that. Very funny and twisted, but after awhile it got too repetitive and unsurprising. Still, I'd like to see a sequel to that one someday, especially if Eric Idle did the voice for Rjinswand again.

Granted, these games I've mentioned don't necessarily cater to everyone's better tastes. However, they also don't limit themselves to gender. Women can appreciate the humor just as much as men.

I certainly don't want to see girly games either. Yes there are some good games out there that appeal to both sexes. And yes what has sex got to do with it anyway. I come from advertising marketing npd background, one way to explore the way markets develop is to look at sub-segments and see if they are fully covered, or see if there are any niche markets that can be expanded. There are games that are aimed at boys. The people who drew Lara Croft did not have me in mind (sorry guys, she IS a drawing). The problem with asking people for new ideas in forums like this is that, and I do it too, it is too easy to shoot down someones ideas and say we don't need this or we have that already.

Oh to be a woman, sex, motherhood, wrinkles, 233 bits of equipment in the bathroom, helped over busy streets when old

but at least we dont spike the lake that poor unsuspecting dragons dive into

*hic*

Oops...off topic post... sorry

[great party tho]

I play less than I used to when I worked on Starship Titanic. When I did I was into Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, Carmageddon and that N64 Mario multi-player game.

I agree with what you are all saying about making games that are not gender-specific. A good game should appeal to all, I still remember spending 18 hours a day playing Pong with my mum many years ago.

I think there are problems with the game industry at the moment. Firstly it is way too young to be this conservative, all publishers are interested in is versioning successful brands eg Tomb Raider 5. This is because it is such a big investment making a game. I don't think you have to spend over £1m to make something, it doesn't have to be Hollywood.

You forgot multiple orgasms

>The Discworld CDrom game was like that. Very funny
>and twisted, but after awhile it got too repetitive
>and unsurprising.

>Still, I'd like to see a sequel to that one someday [...]

Er, there have been two sequels to Discworld, I believe.

If there's one thing I hate, it's people banging on about the state of industry XYZ, while not actually knowing an awful lot about it.

But don't let me stop you - this is a forum, after all.

Tim

PS. I'll just go and read Edge instead - it amounts to the same thing

>I play less than I used to when I worked on Starship
>Titanic. When I did I was into Crash Bandicoot,
>Tomb Raider,

Well, you had the CD, anyway .

>Final Fantasy,

Got off CD1 yet? :>

>Carmageddon and that N64 Mario multi-player game.

Notice the way Emma pretends not to remember the name of Super Mario Kart 64. In much the same way Bill Clinton forgot what happened with the cigar.

>Firstly it is way too young to be this conservative,
>all publishers are interested in is versioning
>successful brands eg Tomb Raider 5.

You remember that meeting at E3 too, huh?

Tim

and i was too cowardly to mention that...

[bludragons blush purple]

>Carmaggeddon

Twice!

You forgot the bit about how Emma refused to play Carmageddon multiplayer with the rest of the TDV crew.

Adam