Yesterday’s post had a link to FamiBro, and while trying to balance male and female representations of gaming websites equally is subjective and doesn’t make much sense (especially since FamiBro doesn’t seem very bro-y), it does allow me to make a largely meaningless introduction to a blog post about the website FEMICOM. There, done!
Rachel Simone Weil’s FEMICOM is museum and repository of information on overtly girly gaming paraphernalia. They also publish research and a sporadically-updated blog on related issues.
One of the more recent additions to their collection is Parappa side-game and Set Side B fav UmJammer Lammy. Another is on Idol Hakkenden, for which you may remember we’ve written about a translation patch before.
They found a manga introduction for girls to assembly language programming, a topic so baroque that I don’t think I’ve seen any such guides directed to boys, unless you count standard non-gendered guides and reference works. And they’ve interviewed femgaming star Anna Anthropy too.
Girl-focused games are a little-discussed community among your obsessive webists, and anyone collecting and discussing them deserves more exposure.
