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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
Krisn�kov� (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 P�rez 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/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/>
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/ target=new>http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~broada/spectrum/>
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