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AssociateX Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 134 Location: North Dakota
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: Girl/female games |
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I need to install some games for my girls (one wife and two daughters[7 and 5]). I noticed that the girls like to play different games than what the boys like to play. What do you see your girls playing?
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Girls, what do you like to play that is in portage?
Thanks a ton. _________________ AssociateX
Gentoo rocks!
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barophobia Apprentice
Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 229 Location: somewhere
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:33 am Post subject: |
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Don't assume what games people like because of their gender.
games-arcade/frozen-bubble _________________ An apple is an apple unless you say it is not an apple! |
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vputz Guru
Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 310 Location: Oxford, England
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Don't assume what games people like because of their gender. |
You don't want to assume what a person might like because of their gender, but there are definitely trends to what people like; my wife did a survey/study some time ago and there were definitely trends. Female players tended to like games with less direct conflict than male players (ie fewer fps games, and generally fewer rts games). Games involving pattern matching or simplification/reduction (think bejeweled/frozen-bubble/tetris) tended to score much better (with regards to classic arcade games, female players tended to favor Asteroids or Centipede over, say, Tempest). Female players greatly favored multiplayer games featuring cooperation rather than open deathmatch, etc.
Though in this case, I'd agree with the frozen-bubble recommendation. May also want to check out Pingus, and perhaps ppracer. |
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dmpogo Advocate
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3269 Location: Canada
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:42 am Post subject: |
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frozen-bubble is my wife's favorite. Plus whatever variation on bejeweled theme. |
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StifflerStealth Retired Dev
Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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frozen-bubble and bejeweled are perfect choices. If you don't mind paying for games, I read somewhere that some of the Nancy Drew games work in wine. I think most of the older ones work. You can check winehq to see about installation. Supposedly girls love the Nancy Drew games. I never played them, so I don't know what all the fuss is about. Maybe you can try it out and let me know. I think they would love those games though. You should be able to pick the older ones up for almost nothing now. Especially at a place that buys and sells used games. Unless they like Alien Arena, which is free ...
Good luck. |
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Angry_Red_Antz Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 103 Location: Pittsfield, Massachusetts, But 100% Boricua
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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maybe she would like enigma and SMC _________________ Show me the Linux! |
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Section_8 l33t
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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My daughter (9) loves supertux |
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Phenax l33t
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Quake is universal. |
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AssociateX Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 134 Location: North Dakota
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:26 am Post subject: |
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barophobia,
I made my post like I did for a reason. There ARE general differences between what males and females like. And this is not a matter political correctness or lack of, just a matter of fact.
vputz,
Thank you.
dmpogo,
Thank you.
StifflerStealth,
Thank you. I do not allow wine on my Linux box but I will check out frozen-bubble and bejeweled.
Angry_Red_Antz,
Thank you.
Section_8,
Thank you. _________________ AssociateX
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Sprotte Apprentice
Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 217 Location: Kiel, Germany
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Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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Your wife might perhaps like Nethack or Dungeon Crawl. Both have quite some female players. Crawl's interface is more tetris-like I guess (player always centered, dungeon moves.) There are very active Usenet groups about those, where women are regularly participating (rec.games.roguelike.nethack, rec.games.roguelike.misc, Google Groups works fine.)
My sister, when she was little, liked math games, Sim Park (animal games), some simple motorcycle game, "toy car" games (Mario Kart like - you could look at zsnes to play some old SNES games)... and have you thought of stuff like KStars? My sister also played HOURS of both Ridge Racer (multiplayer) and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on the Playstation. There are PSX emulators, so you could also look there.
Perhaps RPGs? Again zsnes might be worth a look, and games like Final Fantasy III/VI or Chrono Trigger. Girls feature prominently in both, and your characters play in a team/group. There's battle though (well comicky fantasy battle) and the daughters might be too young.
I also remember my sister playing quite a lot of Tomb Raider (astonishing amount of female fans) when she was about 12. There's violence though, and you said wine was out. The first one might run under Dosbox though. Check Stella's site http://tombraiders.net - your wife will either like it or utterly despise it. You can just install Wine games in your wife's home dir btw
And: enigma++
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Mantaar Apprentice
Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:47 am Post subject: |
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I heard there is a "port" of Sims 1 to Linux - it's more like Sims for Win with some winelib and maybe extra Cedega stuff, but I heard it works without that dependencies. Girls tend to just love Sims, so that's why I recommend it.
Otherwise I would probably just show them FrozenBubble and the Gnome Games collection. My mum still likes to play Mahjong very much. _________________ Error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function. |
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wdsci Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 149 Location: US
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Section_8 wrote: | My daughter (9) loves supertux |
My little sister (who's 12) is rather fond of Supertux, KGoldrunner, Kolf . . . I'd recommend installing whatever basic games are out there for your chosen desktop environment (e.g. if you use KDE, emerge kdegames-meta) so that you cover the standard card games, board games, etc. Also Supertux, and especially Frozen-Bubble and Tuxracer (is that called ppracer now?), both of which seem to have pretty universal appeal. And if you have a graphical Portage frontend (I use Kuroo), you can browse through the games category and easily pick out any packages whose descriptions sound appealing.
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gregf Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 102 Location: USA, Maine
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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I recommend xmoto and supertux. |
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drwook Veteran
Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:21 am Post subject: |
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Supertux and burgerspace are my 'almost 4 year old''s favourites. She also likes freedroidRPG but gets stuck occasionally as can't keep up with the dialogue or get all of it, but since yours are older...
Other less long lived distractions - tuxpuck, supertuxkart, fbg, tod
Poss worth a look - angrydd, tmw, toppler, egoboo, cannonsmash, qct, fish-fillets, tuxmath, gav, briquolo, blobwars, accelerator3d
Should be a fun day or two testing them out |
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Mantaar Apprentice
Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:05 am Post subject: |
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wdsci wrote: | And if you have a graphical Portage frontend (I use Kuroo), you can browse through the games category and easily pick out any packages whose descriptions sound appealing. |
You can do the same with eix -C and many other command line tools _________________ Error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function. |
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AssociateX Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 134 Location: North Dakota
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks people, you've been a big help. I've installed frozen-bubble, pingus, ppracer, enigma, smc, and supertux so far. My daughters like them. I'll add the other suggestions later today and report back.
For the record, the only reason wine, cedega, and dosbox/dosenu are not allowed on my box is that I'll be damned if I'm going to spend 10 years learning/using Linux only to get to the point where I'm running win32 stuff again like some kind of weird full circle thing. _________________ AssociateX
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gregf Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 102 Location: USA, Maine
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure how your girls like the games but thanks to you guys I'm now addicted to burgerspace... damn you guys! |
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sirdilznik l33t
Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 731
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Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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It doesn't matter what gender you are. Everyone loves Fish-Fillets! |
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lazy_bum l33t
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:42 am Post subject: |
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sirdilznik wrote: | It doesn't matter what gender you are. Everyone loves Fish-Fillets! |
I would also add "and what age you are". But true anyway. (-: _________________ roslin uberlay | grubelek |
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energyman76b Advocate
Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:24 am Post subject: |
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Well, back on the Amiga my sisters loved Street Fighter 2, Flood, Aprentice, Rick Dangerous, Giana Sisters, Blues Brothers, Dynablasters, Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion and whatsitsname pinball.
Hm, from my humble experience, girls love jump and runs and old style adventure games with lots of jokes.
Edit: and Prospector. Wow, Prospector - the music... and the levels. We all loved Prospector in the Mazes of Xor. _________________ Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males
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overkll Veteran
Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1249 Location: Austin, Texas
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:24 am Post subject: |
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I have 3 daughters and out of all the games I bought them, the absolute number one winner was "The Sims". They played it for years! I don't know if it'll run under wine/cedega, but I'm sure it'll run on windows. LOL You could install virtualbox for the windows games though. |
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StifflerStealth Retired Dev
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking of Sims ... my girlfriend plays Sims2 so I always have the linux box. No harm there. Well, anyways, I thought there was a Sims like game for Linux? I remember reading about something like that. Does anyone know what I am talking about? And please don't tell my girlfriend that it exists ... I still want to use my Linux machine. |
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AssociateX Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 134 Location: North Dakota
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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I'll try to say this nicely.... I'm only looking for games in portage. Of course thank you for all of your suggestions, including the win32 ones but I only run Gentoo/Linux in my house.
I know, I know, I should have made that part of my thread title on the Gentoo forums something about must be in portage. I wonder if on some Windows forums they also specify that what they want would only be win32/64 junk.
Anyway, thank you for all of your suggestions... even the win32 ones although there's not a chance in Hell that I would ever use any of the win32/64 ones. _________________ AssociateX
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energyman76b Advocate
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:59 am Post subject: |
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why not install uae/e-uae and run some good old amiga games? e-uae/uae are in portage and there are lots of sites where you can download the adf files. _________________ Study finds stunning lack of racial, gender, and economic diversity among middle-class white males
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drwook Veteran
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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Next people'll be suggesting XMAME & grabbing a load of arcade ROMS... |
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