Laura Kennedy considers the soft power of the female consumer and why critics of gaming have it all wrong...
Chances are, you have a gaming console of some kind in your home, but how often have you played something on it? As more women engage in gaming, Laura Kennedy considers the soft power of the female consumer and why critics of gaming have it all wrong.
while insulting one another through headsets like disenfranchised telemarketers, you may be confused.is a game without any ultimate end goal; an experience for its own sake. There is no threat, competition or winning. You just curate your stupid, gorgeous island, build a little house, check in with your villagers and watch as the seasons change in real-time. It is nothing more or less than a cosy experience which leaves you feeling soothed.
Enter the “cosy game”, a genre described by games journalist Yahtzee Croshaw as “games with low narrative stakes; gameplay usually leaning more on completionism and task management than on reflex skill challenge, a gentler, understated tone, a general air of niceness and friendship, often with a pleasing, cartoonish art style”.
As part of the indie game industry, along with her husband Dave and the team they work with at Spooky Doorway, McCabe creates nuanced, narrative-based games which have a unique flavour of Irish character and humour. These include the cult point-and-click adventure game, which follows the exploits of Detective Francis McQueen and has all the nostalgia of classic games of the 1980s and ’90s, but with a modernised sense of humour and complexity.
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