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<LI><em>From</em>: "Dr. Cat" <<A HREF="mailto:cat#bga,com">cat#bga,com</A>></LI>
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> Actually I think an effort to make a good clean game are laudable.
>
> Both my son and daughter found your web page to quite enticing and
> begged me to let them play. However, I don't let them get into
> anything that even remotely resembles IRC, too much crap out there,
> just supervised wed surfing. :)
>
> I was wondering whether you have any handle on the age of your users?
There is a small amount of policing done right now by four of our adult
players acting as volunteers, and by my partner and myself. Enough to
keep out most of the sexual harrassment, the server crashers and the kids
that think standing in a crowd and yelling out obnoxious stuff non-stop
is good fun. But it's probably not enough policing for most concerned
parents to leave kids in there unsupervised. We might provide that level
of safety when we have things like "revenues" and "paid staff" and the like.
We're hoping to get users of all ages, though the subject matter and art
style do appeal strongly to children. We haven't started collecting
demographic information as part of the registration process yet (we WILL
do this soon, now that we're aiming at being an advertising supported
service), but one of the women that plays the game, on her own
initiative, set up a web based survey form. There's only 60 responses so
far, self-selected sample, etc. etc., but it's at least a hint of what
our audience looks like. All the results are at:
<A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/woodsong/furcadia/results.html">http://members.xoom.com/woodsong/furcadia/results.html</A>
At present, it shows 79% of the people responding gave their age as being
in the range 10-21. 53% say they are male in real life, and 47% say
they're female, which pleases me. I'd hate to be missing out on half of
the human population as potential audience members, the way the majority
of computer games do now! :X)
*-------------------------------------------**-----------------------------*
Dr. Cat / Dragon's Eye Productions || Free alpha test:
*-------------------------------------------** <A HREF="http://www.bga.com/furcadia">http://www.bga.com/furcadia</A>
Furcadia - a new graphic mud for PCs! || Let your imagination soar!
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<LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Some thoughts on languages and users - was: Macro semi</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00790" HREF="msg00790.html">[MUD-Dev] Some thoughts on languages and users - was: Macro semi</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00787" HREF="msg00787.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) Re: POLL: Games ruined by bad players (Playe</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00782" HREF="msg00782.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) Re: POLL: Games ruined by bad players (Playe</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00291" HREF="msg00291.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) Re: POLL: Games ruined by bad players (Playe</A></strong>,
Richard Woolcock <a href="mailto:KaVir#dial,pipex.com">KaVir#dial,pipex.com</a>, Fri 01 May 1998, 00:28 GMT
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