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By: Lively Ivy » Blog Archive » Guest blog, Guest blog, You’re my guest blog…

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:53:26 +0000

[...] doing a monthly-ish guest blog for the good people at Notes on Game Dev. My first contribution is here, titled “Adventure is a Good Way of Putting It.” Future postings will be filed under [...]

By: Natalie

Natalie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:42:36 +0000

That is a pretty awesome adventure. I am sure that it leads to all sorts of interesting situations.

My husband and I leave on September 30th to backpack to various countries around the world for a year or so.

As we have been planning for our adventure we have been updating a blog. http://www.nomadbackpackers.com

Let me know if you want us to check out any video games in a certain country or region we plan on going to.

Natalie

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:03:14 +0000

Wow, I’m sorry I didn’t see these posts sooner! Thank you very much to both gypsysnail and Betsy for your kind words.

Gypsysnail, hopefully I can get in touch with you soon, and Betsy, I’m glad you enjoyed the details of the “Unbound” apartment. I basically called my mom and asked her to list all of the cliched 1970s decorating fads she could think of. The candle was one of them, although I decided against including a lava lamp. The macrame was a bit of a surprise, since we certainly had some hanging in our kitchen long after the 70s…

By: Betsy Ronsse

Betsy Ronsse — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:15:43 +0000

Hi, Erin,

I’m a fellow student at Sessions Online School of Game Art. It was a pleasure to read your blog this morning.

My husband and I enjoyed the “Blackwell Unbound” game–good story, fun characters with witty dialog, and a logical solution. The details in the art were terrific! Especially liked the ’70s apartment decorations–oh, man, we had forgotten that EVERYBODY had a melted-candle.

I look forward to seeing your new project!

By: gypsysnail

gypsysnail — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:05:47 +0000

Erin, you are sooo awe-inspiring!!! You have just made me realise I can achieve my small game business as well. I have just recently acquired a fantastic partner in the business, my best friend who I met 3 months ago!! I LOVE your games so much, and I get you on the scope of games, to not have so much ‘fluffy, cotton candy’ type games, but a much wider scope that inputs what you described (smart, memorable…) such as the nanobots in the setting (1 room background), I would have not realised it was made by a woman so it makes me VERY proud of you, being a woman myself. It just goes to prove women can do anything and have all sorts of concepts. Its good to be zany and to let the imagination go wild so good on you! I would like to talk to you via AGS and discuss games (and the good old memories of kings quest, torins passage, Amon Ra, Colonels Bequest, eco quest… etc etc). I am very excited to have ‘met’ you and it makes me believe more that women can do it! I started to think about this sort of career 3 years ago and am just getting into the gist of things specially since meeting my friend who lives close by, and losing my job recently. Slowly learning the scripting and bettering my graphic artwork. Please feel welcome to send me a message on AGS – gypsysnail, thats me.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:56:10 +0000

Man, I need to watch that movie again. :-,

By: Vince Twelve

Vince Twelve — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:30:57 +0000

Hey! It’s a glandular problem!

By: Dave Gilbert

Dave Gilbert — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:21:49 +0000

Woo! Erin’s famous!

If your team is the Goonies what does that make me? Mikey’s dad?

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:33:44 +0000

Hey William, thank you for sharing that!

I read the whole thing, and some of those findings are quite unexpected. The two biggest surprises for me were the number of women gamers, and the fact that “adventure” games still make up about 5% of the PC games market. It’d be interesting to hear what classified a game as “adventure”, but either way it’s encouraging to hear.

By: William

William — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:37:04 +0000

I’ve been doing some research on games marketed at women, and found a fairly helpful spring board in the form of http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/ESA_EF_2008.pdf

It’s a pretty big PDF, though, just a heads up. It’s the ESA’s report on the breakdown of age and gender across various game mediums.