In accordance with the publics voyeuristic addiction comes a controversial new video game for girls - the mobile based Coolest Girl in School. Emerging as a rpg for teens, the game sets a stage for girls where stealing, sexual dalliances, drug use and gossiping pave the path to teenage empowerment. In the game, the objective is to lie, @#%$ and flirt your way to the top of the high school ladder, and the developer, Champagne for the Ladies, is billing their new game as the young womans answer to Grand Theft Auto. In the game, the player is encouraged to experiment with fashion, drugs, sexuality, cutting class and spreading rumors in an effort to win.
"I personally do not believe that a video game would cause any more angst than what teenage girls are already feeling. In a way, it might be the perfect vehicle for these girls to vent their frustrations, get virtual revenge on that mean-spirited @#%$ that torments their lives on day to day basis, or live out a fantasy as someone that is the total opposite of them. While I do not condone any sort of drug use in adolescents, be it virtual or otherwise and denounce its use in games targeted at anyone below an M rated crowd - it is after all, just a game. If they would take out the use of said drug references and the option of doing them, or if the developers were to make this an M rated game for mature women to revel in - I am sure more people could possibly get on board with the game. The nay-sayers who decry the social ramifications of being the biggest harpy in school need to relax because, like I said, it is just a game - but the idea of condoning or encouraging teenage girls to revel in drug use, whether there are consequences in the game or not, is just too controversial for anyone to accept as appropriate for such an impressionable audience."
Sweetcakes. More girl gamers. SCORE! Seriously though...how long before parents, officials, etc start blaming this game for everything from hurricanes to why Pluto is no longer a planet. 😛
My sister's friends do a good enough job of that without the need for a game.
They're missing the point.
Does this even have anything in common with GTA, a sandbox game? I doubt it.
It looks like a crappy game that would be obscure without the blog posts and that ridiculously silly editorial.
Bully: For Girls.
Y'know what I'd like to see? "The loneliest, lamest, most rejected girl in school", a game where you walk around campus at lunch and look at all the happy people and their friends while fantasizing about what it would be like to be them and regretting your whole existence. But I wouldn't need a game like that. T.T *goes all Emo* But yeah, from a loner's point of view... this game sound awful. But maybe I'm just biased 😛
The problem with this game is that it encourages behaviors that are detrimental to our society while stereotyping how girls "should" or "often" behave. It's one thing to create a fantasy situation where you're a space mercenary blowing up aliens on a far-off world; it's entirely another to simulate something so much closer to home and not properly replicate the consequences of drug use and premarital sex. I mean duh, it's STUPID to use drugs and it's STUPID to go sleeping around with all of the STDs and teen pregnancies that occur. But does this game balance itself in that way? I doubt it.
Granted, any girl who would use a game as a role model is pretty messed up to begin with. However, I don't like how people are basically brushing off the idea of what effect this will have, especially on the little kids who will invariably get their hands on this and play it and get these stereotypes in their minds.
The high school social system is incredibly broken anyways =D
Anyways, yeah, it's completely crazy that this is going to receive little to no media attention (I think) while other games that are by comparison a lot more tasteful are going to get beat with the Hillary Clinton stick =D
Actually, I want to play it, just for the lolz, really.
And I don't think the GTA reference was meant to make people think it plays like GTA, just that what GTA is to men (god that's so stereotypical. oO), this kind of game is to women.
Terg, you must not know any highschool aged females. They're already taught this stuff is the way to go by peers AND teachers.
Maybe it's just Oklahoma but the public schools around here are FRIGHTENING.
~Tobe
