Cerise Magazine

January 2008 Issue

Features

• From the Editors
• Craft Check: Gaming Gloves
• Gaming in the Media: Women Working in Games - 5 Viewpoints, 2 Ways to Play
• Market to Me: Women as players
• Gamer vs Gamer: An old debate for the new year: casual vs. hardcore

Interviews

• Industry Interview: Naomi Clark
• Blogger Interview: Mighty Ponygirl [Feminist Gamers]

Articles

• Gender & Live-Action Role Play: Reality Repackaged
  Author: Samara Hayley Steele

In this ongoing series, Samara shares her experiences as a female LARPer in a male-dominated LARP Organization.

• Planning a Women-Only Gaming Group
  Author: Robyn Fleming

Robyn outlines the trials and tribulations of organizing an all-women gaming group.

• Celebrating women in the industry
  Author: Andrea Rubenstein

Andrea looks at some of the influential women in the video game and tabletop gaming industry.

• Choosing Imitation Over Innovation
  Author: Richard Pilbeam

Richard discusses ways in which imitation and a lack of innovation help to perpetuate sexist themes in games produced by the RPG Maker community.

Gamer Stories

• Scarred by Time
  by Olivia Luna

Reviews

• Super Mario Galaxy
  by Ariel Wetzel
• Retro Review: Pitfall!
  by Abby Wilson

Odds 'n Ends

• The Back Page

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The turning of the year is, for many of us, a time to anticipate changes in our lives and strive to improve ourselves. But can we anticipate improvements in games and in the broader gaming community? And what can we learn from looking back and examining what has been done before? Our contributors are grappling with these questions, among others, in many of our articles and features this month. In Gamer vs. Gamer, Victor Barreiro Jr. and Anika Cunningham discuss the casual vs. hardcore gaming divide, both where it’s been and where it’s going. Meanwhile, Richard Pilbeam looks back at some of the past products of the RPG Maker community, and Samara Steele delivers something novel in the form of a free-verse poem.

When you’ve read these and our other articles and features, be sure to enjoy a little amusement on The Back Page, where we’re announcing the winners of last month’s LOLGAMERS contest.

And after that, maybe you’d like to start this new year by looking over our submission guidelines and planning an article of your own