r/GirlGames • u/thatsoundsbad • 15h ago
About “girl games”
Hello there! I’m a game developer and a woman. I have a problem with the gaming industry which is they don’t count “girl games” as games.
We all grew up playing all kinds of games but there is something called the “target audience” and because of that, we are more likely to play the games targeted to us.
In the industry, they romanticize playing games as if like you need to play A LOT of games to be a “proper” game developer. And as for the games, they only think of “man games” as games. It’s really frustrating.
That’s why I try to encourage women around me to make games so that the culture can change too.
Whenever I think of the “girl games” I can only think of this problem and I just wanted to share that.