[MUD-Dev] Girl appeal (was: Boys and Girls)

[Christopher Allen]

I've been reading this 'Boys and Girls' thread, and its derivatives
for some time, as I've been interested in this topic for years.

It was a design goal for our game Castle Marrach was to appeal first
to women, and then to men. To that end, I think we succeeded -- I
believe that slightly more then half of the players are women. If
you include the men that play women, well over half the characters
in the game are women.

I think it would be interesting reading for those interested in this
topic to look at the latest revision of our Castle Marrach Players
Guide -- current version is 48 pages. It is located at
http://www.skotos.net/games/marrach/PlayersGuide.html . I think
you'll see some of what we've done to appeal to women, but not
alienate men.

I wouldn't say that Castle Marrach has been a huge commercial
success, but it does succeed in retaining old users, adding new
users, and thus growing every month. The game is now completely
player run, freeing us to concentrate on growing the system and
working on other games.

-- Christopher Allen

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