The game-design world is definitely male-dominated, which is why we're psyched that two women managed to pick up top honors at this year's Game Design Challenge at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco. What's even better? The game's about losing your virginity and they managed to design a game in significantly less time than their fellow competitors.
Heather Kelley and Erin Robinson stepped in with only 36 hours to create a game after another competitor left the contest because the theme "your first time" was a little too risqué for her employer.
The other contestants had a few weeks to get ready, but Kelley and Robinson rocked the contest with their multilevel game "Our First Times." In the game, players pick out outfits without snaggy zippers, shave their entire legs, circumvent garlic at dinner and buy condoms.
The game would be made for the Wii or perhaps iPhone, and sounds like more fun to talk about than it would be to actually play. Who wants to replay that evening over and over again?
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Monday 30 March
By CMAK
I think that, although it's great that women have made a success in a male-dominated field, this game is an absolute disgrace. A game about losing your virginity? seriously, how much more morally decrepit can society get? Instead of proving that women can be just as successful as men, the creators of this game have only confirmed the common stereotype that exists in so many male-oriented video games: that women are nothing more than the object of sexual desire, and they should pursue nothing beyond being deemed "sexually appealing". Promoting promiscuity like this is disgusting, unoriginal, and disappointing.
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Wednesday 27 May
By Nathan
Yes, because sex is a sin right?
Did you even notice the bit about condoms in there.. Something which the USA (thanks to religious nutjobs trying to stifle any attempt at sex education) needs desperately. This game is probably the first time some kids in the USA have heard about condoms as a safe sex concept rather than "abstain!!".
Like all things if it offends you: feel free not to play it.
Friday 01 May
By jamie bailey
I really really want this game, when is it out? can i be in the sequal?
much love,
JamieB
xox
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Friday 01 May
By revdrbong1
On the contrary, I'm glad these women are embracing their sexuality. Women are sexual creatures too! This is not the Victorian Age where women have no desires and masturbation causes death. Kudos ladies.
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Friday 01 May
By Justin
The sequel is about having to navigate years of failed relationships until finding a guy that lays on the couch and gains 50 lbs in 5 years.
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Friday 01 May
By Jim Stroud
CMAK,
As a father of a little princess, I totally agree with you. I wonder how many fathers with teenage daughters are in favor of this game?
Jim
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Wednesday 06 May
By Kate
Wouldn't you rather have sex be an open topic, something you can talk about, than be something taboo? Because if your little princess plays a game about losing your virginity (provided she's old enough to play it when she gets ahold of it) it'll make it easier to talk about, because the game is funny, and it'll open up a situation in which you can have "the sex talk." If she grows up thinking that sex is dirty and bad, then she'll miss out on being informed about sex so when the time does come for her to lose her v-card, she'll know to be safe and wait until she's sure she won't regret it. Because losing one's virginity isn't a game, but a game can open the field to talk about it.