By: Ben in Seattle
That’s fabulous! I had actually originally thought that the hero of the Zelda games was female and was very disappointed when I found the hero was “Link” and Zelda was the helpless princess/prize....
View ArticleBy: Nathan
I am a father of a young daughter, and it has always bothered me that most female video game characters are helpless, or worse, just eye candy. I salute you for your dedication and willingness to...
View ArticleBy: Heather
I am 31 and have played video games for most of my life, now I am an indie game designer/artist. I still cringe when forced to play male, or inappropriately dressed, characters in games. I have a seven...
View ArticleBy: Michael T. Bhatty
This points out an in important point – accessability in games. I have been a Game Designer for some time and I often heared from female players why they didn’t like this title or that title – and the...
View ArticleBy: Matze (Germany)
That’s very cool! I wish it would be legal to read out the cardridge in Germany. Unfortunatly it’s forbidden… but forbidden doesen’t mean it’s not possible :-) I will look what I can do ;-) But...
View ArticleBy: Philip
The German News Site http://www.spiegel.de brought me to your page! Congratulations for the nice idea and best of fun for playing zelda with your daughter!
View ArticleBy: WuChuyun
When I was a girl, my dad used to read to me “Where the Wild Things Are” by Sendak – and he secretly switched the main character from boy to girl. I completely identified with her and discovered only...
View ArticleBy: Nic
Awesome!!! ♥ One of my clearest memories of childhood is my dad hacking the Elite code in order to make sure I had an autopilot right from the start of the game – I kept getting lost in the three...
View ArticleBy: None-ya-business
How far do we go with this? What if the main character was a horse? Would you have made it a female character then? Your daughter isn’t a horse, so I assume you would. You wouldn’t want your daughter...
View ArticleBy: mhoye
How far do we go with this? What if the main character was a horse? If you can’t figure out where to draw sane lines in your life between people and horses, son, you’ve got bigger problems than I can...
View ArticleBy: None-ya-business
Changing game characters as you seem to like to do seems very illogical. Personally I see no need to ever do that. Are you going to go around adding high heels and lipstick to all of your daughters...
View ArticleBy: mhoye
Are you going to go around adding high heels and lipstick to all of your daughters game characters to make yourself feel better? You know that you’re part of the problem here, right? And the fact that...
View ArticleBy: Alfonso Rodríguez
You sir, are the Father of the entire life of the Videogames… That’s something nice tto do to a girl… and if someone tell you bad things for it, they are stupid…
View ArticleBy: Adrian
“You know that you’re part of the problem here, right? And the fact that you don’t even seem to realize that a problem might exist is also part of the problem?” That, right there, is the best answer to...
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