![]() The best accessory is player imagination, because dolls can only be teachers, babysitters, and infants so many times before it gets boring. The outfit she wears helps to dictate the role she plays, but accessories sold with dolls have always narrowed optimal creativity. ![]() You roleplay with a doll in part through dressing and undressing her. Toys are sold to girls, not as figures in a set, but as figures where play depends on auxiliary accessories for the main figure. Unlike action figures, where clothing is typically painted on, dolls anticipate play revolving around dressing and undressing the figure. Play reinforces the expectations attached to birth-assigned sex: boys to army men, girls to dolls. These interfaces are similar in design to the dress-up games children raised as girls are conditioned to play. But standalone dress-up interfaces targeted towards female-identifying audiences are different. Dress-up should not mean reassembling the pieces of an outfit drawn in full.īecause do girls even like anything other than princesses, fluffy puppies, baked goods and pink everything?ĭress-up is a pillar in videogaming: Ever created an avatar? Customized your armor? You’ve played dress-up. The unbelievable shittiness of dress-up games is their own, a unique blend of design choices that exclude all player agency and creativity. The larger problem is the scarcity of quality games about femininity this just happens to include standalone dress-up games. Because do girls even like anything other than princesses, fluffy puppies, baked goods and pink everything? Crappy flash games “for girls” are not unique in their problematic gender overgeneralization, and this hyper-feminization isn’t even the worst part. Stand alone dress-up games operate under the assumption that their audience has a one-track mind. Flash interfaces residing on domains with names like, games with titles like “Pretty Princess Makeover” or “Justin Bieber Photography.” “Help this royal misfit with a makeover so she can become a very pretty princess,” reads the description for a production titled “ The Ugly Princess. The dress-up genre is characterized by unbelievable shittiness. This piece is part of our Future of Genre series. ![]()
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