Virtual Femme

Virtual Femme : Exploring Gaming and Game Design from a Woman's Perspective
Virtual Femme
Exploring Gaming and Game Design from a Woman's Perspective
Virtual Femme is a developer's blog by a female game designer and world builder. It explores code design, world and lore building, and various aspects of writing and organizing for online roleplaying games.
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1/13 16:40 Writing for Wikipedia - To Do or Not to Do?
One of my favorite starting points for general research used to be Wikipedia, but by now, many of you in the gaming industry may have heard all the hooplah about the entire Threshold RPG vs. Wikipedia incident. (That's a bit of a misnomer. I should...
9/29 18:19 Creating Virtual Cultures
People ask me all the time how I go about writing all the fiction and the details that I do for work. (I develop virtual worlds for a living. This includes the geography, the history, the races, and the culture.) I mostly use basic tools that all...
1/15 18:52 Creating Quests in an Online Game
Quests, as a word in the gaming community, has been dumbed down beyond belief by the churn-n-burn questing style introduced by World of Warcraft that has continued in Everquest II, Warhammer Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and just about any new...
9/16 1:37 Creating Gems for Online Roleplaying Games
Almost all online roleplaying games require some sort of gems system for their virtual world. Some games opt to go with real life gem counterparts, and they skip the need to create gems particular to their own world. The most important decision that...
9/16 14:51 Writing in the Active Voice
For most games and especially text games, writing should be done in the active voice to give players a true sense of events within the game's history and current happenings. Many writers fall into the habit of writing in the passive voice which can...

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