Saturday, May 24, 2008

Cerise Review of DD:HH

I just got back from the Capes and Consoles party which is co-sponsored by Cerise Magazine (and Iris Gaming Network), and talked to Robyn Fleming (wanted to tell her I enjoyed her panel on Friday).
And was pleasantly surprised to find a mostly positive and spot on review of DD:HH in their May issue when I got back to my room and started clicking around their site.

This is the same reviewer who reviewed Wedding Dash and wasn't too happy with the script. We think this was partially because of misreading a dialog box - I think it was the "did you get a career yet?" line. I'm pretty sure that is not what the line said, but I can't remember what we meant right now.

Overall, she did enjoy DD:HH though, it looks like she even got people to play multiplayer with her. She loves the teenagers, although I was entertained by this:
"(Unfortunately, this game breaks no heteronormative bounds. Girls don’t flirt with girls.)"
We had to do some struggling to get the Sims in Sims 2 to "Propose Union" to their same-sex partners (in 2004, before Gavin's help) - so for this audience, I'm not sure if we could push to have same sex teen couples and Wedding Dash same sex weddings, for that matter...

1 comment:

Angel said...

Yeah she misread the word caterer. Flo was asking if Quinn had a caterer yet and not a career. I am glad to know you met her. Now hopefully she knows there are positive women working on PlayFirst games.