While some other hooligans were sitting down with Raph, schild sat down with Dave Rickey for a compelling conversation about the state of the industry, his work at Orbis games, Wish, the female gamer, where things are going, and his own life.

From the article:

Schild: Which is a good place to talk about your company and what you're doing. Talk about the woman gamer, you've got a good amount of exposure to them with your new projects.

Dave Rickey: Don't patronize her. Just accept how she's different, in the end women are like men in only one important way, they want to play games that are interesting to them.

And to see how they are different, you can look at the handful of games they both play, and see how they play them differently, like The Sims. Women play with the virtual dollhouse part like little girls playing House. Men play like little boys torturing bugs. Generalizations like this can be useful, as long as you remember they are just generalizations. People think differently, and although there are definite general patterns to how the sexes think, over all, as a general rule, most men and most women as different from the gender norms as those norms are from each other. So making games for women becomes a more extreme case of making games for "people who aren't like me".

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