May 2007 Issue: Table of Contents
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Features
From the Editors
Craft Check: Make Your Own Miniatures
In the very first edition of Craft Check, Robyn Fleming shows you how to make your own quirky miniatures (for use in tabletop gaming) out of polymer clay.
Articles
Attention Game Designers: 5 Steps to Attract Girl Gamers
Author: Latoya Peterson
Latoya Peterson gives game designers five simple suggestions for tapping into a greater share of the potential female video gamer market.
Playing With Patriarchy
Author: Natalie Hill
Natalie Hill explores some of the ways in which video gaming culture is constructed as a boys’ club, looks at problems with female gaming avatars, and talks about the damage that casual misogyny can do to girl and women gamers.
Lagging Behind: The Girls’ Games Movement and the Future of Gender in Games
Author: Lindsey Galloway
Lindsey Galloway gives the history of the Girls’ Games Movement, kicked off by surprise hit game Barbie Fashion Designer in 1996, only to fizzle out almost as soon as it began, leaving behind little more than pink and purple packaging and some persistent assumptions about what girls want out of video games. Are games that play with gender the answer?
Girls Don’t Play Video Games
Author: Nick Cummings
Do girls play video games? Nick revisits this myth and talks about why it may be more damaging than it first appears.
