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Message: 1657

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 04/01/2001

Subject: Re: gender and nationality

 

[Gender]
It would be most interesting to see
what a female MM/JSW author would come up with, but
unfortunately very few females seem to be interested in MM/JSW
(and computing in general). I did try to seduce this
woman I met over the Internet to JSW, and almost
succeeded, but I think I lost her in the end. She thought
JSW was male-only because you needed a willy to play!
;-> My sister used to play JSW a bit (most recently
Join The Jet-Set! in 1997), but I've never been able
to get her to do any editing. The furthest I've got
with my mother is to get her to look at a few of my
screens.

[Nationality]

Andrew's games are also strikingly different from anyone else's, but he's English like me,

Gawp and Sendy. We Pretty is basically on its

own in Willy circles.

Yes - a very
unorthodox game, based on my own bizarre imagination,
although undoubtedly inspired by my personal experiences,
which I refracted into surreality. I tried to step back
from being English and male when I wrote We Pretty -
although the diary starts in England, it is set in various
countries, and I feel that the game has a certain feminine
touch, too, which comes from my inner woman, Kari
Krisníková (I'm not androgenous in the sense that sendy is,
or David Bowie in the 1970s - I guess there's an
inner woman in every man, although not every man is
aware of his inner woman).

I typed Monstrum!
into my real Spectrum in December, which I feel has a
strong English atmosphere (it's a great game
atmospherically and visually, and it plays well, too - the rooms
are very well designed, with some cunning tricks,
albeit no quirky features as such).

Adban De
Corcy's games have a very special atmosphere, too (I'm
typing in A Bulgarian Requiem this month), but it's
probably his individuality rather than the fact that he's
Spanish. I don't think it's enough like the work of
Ignacio Pérez Gil (MM5) to reveal nationalistic traits,
although both MM5 and Willy's Afterlife have rooms called
"The Gates of Hell" ("La Entrada del
Inferno").

Anyway, I hope MM/JSW-authoring spreads to more countries
than the nationalities of this club's members (in
particular, I fantasise about games from America, Australia,
Croatia and Slovakia).

--
Andrew
Broad
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/willy/

 

 

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