Girl/female games

AssociateX · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: Girl/female games

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?

OR

Girls, what do you like to play that is in portage?

Thanks a ton.
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barophobia · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:33 am Post subject:

Don't assume what games people like because of their gender.

games-arcade/frozen-bubble
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vputz · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:03 am Post subject:

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3267 Location: Canada

frozen-bubble is my wife's favorite. Plus whatever variation on bejeweled theme.

StifflerStealth · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968

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.

Angry_Red_Antz · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject:

maybe she would like enigma and SMC
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My daughter (9) loves supertux

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AssociateX · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:26 am Post subject:

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.
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Sprotte · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject:

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++

Mantaar · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 219

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.
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wdsci · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:00 am Post subject:

gregf · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 6:08 am Post subject:

I recommend xmoto and supertux.

drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

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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AssociateX · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject:

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.
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gregf · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject:

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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It doesn't matter what gender you are. Everyone loves Fish-Fillets!

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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

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.
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overkll · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 4:24 am Post subject:

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.

StifflerStealth · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968

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. :roll:

AssociateX · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject:

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.
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

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.
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drwook · Veteran Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1324 Location: London

Next people'll be suggesting XMAME & grabbing a load of arcade ROMS...