Games and Trips: The Maggie Test for Video Games
The tech industry isn’t the only one that’s male-dominated. Videogames suffer from this as well. In some musings with a friend of mine at the Games and Trips blog, we’ve come up with a test to determine whether a videogame at least tries to include women at all. Behold:
To pass the Maggie test a video game must have:
- a playable female character
- which is available to play right away, and not as a special bonus feature
In a previous post, I alluded to this video game corollary to the Bechdel test. We talked about it a bit and my friend agreed to let me use…
(Source: gamesandtrips)