Cerise Magazine

May 2007 Issue

Features

• From the Editors
• Craft Check: Make Your Own Miniatures

Articles

• 5 Steps to Attract Girl Gamers
  Author: Latoya Peterson

Latoya 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

Is video gaming a "boys' club"? Natalie looks at what casual misogyny can do to girl and women gamers.

• Lagging Behind
  Author: Lindsey Galloway

What games do girls want to play? Lindsey takes a look at the "Girls' Games Movement" and the future of gender in games.

• 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.

Reviews

• Final Fantasy III
  by Ariel Wetzel

 

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Women gamers of all types have often been told that they just don’t exist (or that if they do, they don’t count), and many of us have been trying to make our voices heard for a long time.

When we first conceived of Cerise a little over a month ago, we had sweeping visions of a massive publication covering all angles of the gaming hobby, from reviews to interviews with gaming industry professionals and prominent fan voices to tabletop gaming modules to opinion pieces to comics to how-to’s – and all written with the inclusion and support of women in mind, providing a comfortable space where women gamers and their allies could speak openly, and find an audience eager to listen.

This first issue is a little more modest in scope than what we imagined it might be, but our contributors are speaking clearly on a variety of topics ranging from the current climate in gaming culture to the history of the failed Girls’ Games Movement to how to make games that girls and women will enjoy.

Think of this issue as the beginning of a conversation that will just keep on getting better and better with time, as more voices are heard.

So now that the introductions have been made, come in and listen for a while. And perhaps, for our next issue, you’ll have something to say.