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>Gamers are overwhelmingly MALE. This used to be true for decades, but by now the majority of people who play computer games are female. Social games and mobil
by halomru 10y ago
>Gamers are overwhelmingly MALE.
This used to be true for decades, but by now the majority of people who play computer games are female. Social games and mobile games were a game changer in this regard. It will be interesting to see how that affects interest in programming in the future.
- azazqadir 10y agoTrue, especially for Facebook games. Majority of them are female. Though hardcore PC gamers and console gamers are still male in majority.
- douche 10y agoYeah, but people aren't tweaking the autoexec.bat files and frigging around with virtual memory settings, tweaking drivers and dealing with crazy work-arounds for their social smartphone games, the way a lot of us did cutting our teeth on PC games. I picked up a tremendous amount of various computer trivia digging around making games work, and basically internalized a lot of debugging techniques before getting out of short-pants, so to speak.
- rimantas 10y agoSo maybe it is reversed: the fact that you don't need to tweak autoexec.bat any more draws more females to the gaming?
- douche 10y agoMaybe - getting DOS games to run on weird PC clones back in the day was really only an activity fit for masochists - or ten year old boys that reaaaally wanted to shoot some demons or play Warcraft... The other thing is, if gaming is the gateway drug, for a lot of people the next step is modding, level design, botting, etc. The more black-boxy games are, the harder that is.