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<blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5738891" data-attributes="member: 3820">The only major characterization that I'd make about female gamers is that most of them have some experience in being treated as &quot;the Other.&quot; Efforts to fight that needn't go too crazy with trying to target a specific personality profile. I wouldn't assume that, say, women don't prefer tactical combat (certainly untrue in my wife's case). Rather, efforts for inclusion can be very common-sense. Are females roughly 50% of the population? Then maybe use them in 50% of the examples, or illustrations, or even the language. What I learned from my time at White Wolf was that treating active inclusion in the sense of &quot;we expect that you are 50% of our potential audience and will act accordingly&quot; was all it took. The only people alienated by acting as though female gamers are not just welcome, but expected, are people who will drive away your female audience anyway. And I'm of the opinion that an industry that feels it needs to retain guys like that doesn't really deserve to prosper.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Barastrondo, post: 5738891, member: 3820"] The only major characterization that I'd make about female gamers is that most of them have some experience in being treated as "the Other." Efforts to fight that needn't go too crazy with trying to target a specific personality profile. I wouldn't assume that, say, women don't prefer tactical combat (certainly untrue in my wife's case). Rather, efforts for inclusion can be very common-sense. Are females roughly 50% of the population? Then maybe use them in 50% of the examples, or illustrations, or even the language. What I learned from my time at White Wolf was that treating active inclusion in the sense of "we expect that you are 50% of our potential audience and will act accordingly" was all it took. The only people alienated by acting as though female gamers are not just welcome, but expected, are people who will drive away your female audience anyway. And I'm of the opinion that an industry that feels it needs to retain guys like that doesn't really deserve to prosper. [/QUOTE]

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