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investiGaming is a publication of the Serious Game Design group in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University, 2007-2009

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Investigaming tag: Pink Games

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Bennett, D., & Brunner, C. (2000)


Tech Learning’s Well-connected Educator Journal, 21

Synopsis:

A discussion of the potential for designing electronic learning and gaming environments for children, especially appealing to girls.

Keywords:

journal, educational games, pink games, gender equity, gender inclusive

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Cassell, Justine and Jenkins, Henry (1998)


In From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, Eds., MIT Press, pp 2-45 http://www.media.mit.edu/gnl/publications/gg_introduction.pdf

Synopsis:

A discussion of girls and gaming, and how to encourage more girl players.

Keywords:

pink games, book, chapter, feminism, what women want,

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Falstein, N. (1997)


The Inspiracy (http://www.theinspiracy.com/)

Synopsis:

A speculation on why there aren’t more games available for girls and women.

Keywords:

blog, editorial, pink games, gender inclusive, player types

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Fullerton, Tracy, Fron, Janine and Pearce, Celia (2008)


The Fibreculture Journal, issue 11

Synopsis:

Proposes a “new poetics” of game space in which game design is more egalitarian and games themselves draw on a wider range of spatial and cognitive models. 

Keywords:

academia, journal article, MMO, player types, motivations, pink games, what women want, game design, competition, storytelling, empowerment, femininity, the Sims

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Kafai, Yasmin, Heeter, Carrie, Denner, Jill and Sun, Jennifer (2008)


in Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender, Gaming, and Computing, edited by Yasmin Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, Jen Sun, MIT Press

Keywords:

book, chapter, pink games, workforce

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Laurel, Brenda (2008)


in Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender, Gaming, and Computing, edited by Yasmin Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner, Jen Sun, MIT Press

Synopsis:

Discusses the problem of men and women in the game industry base decisions about what boys and girls want on their own childhood experiences.

Keywords:

book, chapter, what men want, what women want, gender stereotypes, game design, Purple Moon, game industry

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Laurel, Brenda (2001)


Cambridge: MIT Press

Synopsis:

A book about entrepreneur Brenda Laurel’s game industry experiences with her company, Purple Moon, a series of computer games for girls.

Keywords:

book, game industry, what women want, game design, pink games, gender stereotypes

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