Did the VERGE community ever have any female Vergers? Currently I don't see any at all. You'd have thought something with the creative freedom of VERGE would have them arriving in droves. I'm guessing they either loath and despise coding or *somebody* scared them off. Or they're all playing The Sims.

Lots of use of the letter "L" there. I've heard of Seren, I played a Revelation demo quite a while back. What happened, they all get bored?

... And "I"? No, wait, don't answer that!

Or they're all playing The Sims.

It's true, my sister plays The Sims. ALL girls who can work a computer do. Electronic Arts have got a lot to answer for.

Oh yeah, since most girls who play games are not computer geeks, V3:s user-friendliness should appeal to them (when it's ready). They still need to find their way here though. :)

I don't play The Sims... o_o

Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Ladies *and* gentlemen, this person is a miracle. Can you code or are you an artist / musician / jack-of-all-trades? I'm a jack-of-most-trades (can't write music to save my life). No, wait: artist. I just skimmed over your profile. Nice webpage. Female input is always a bonus for pretty much anything creative.

The sitcom "Spaced" was co-written with a woman and it was ace. One of Thief and Thief 2's level designers was female (one Terri Brosius. She is best remebered as.. the voice of System Shock's SHODAN. Best enemy every.) and they're ace, particularly her levels. Writing believable female characters also becomes a lot easier.

And, of course, being Sims-free is worth several rounds of applause. I hate mundane games without an end: whats there to look forward to? They feel like such a cop-out. Like an ending is a hard thing to do. Plus, of course, its single-handedly consumed the computer games charts in the space of a couple of years. Great games with fabulous narratives and exciting features fall off the top ten while "The Sims: Makin' Magic" sits on the number one spot for the rest of eternity.

I think there are few women in games making because the assumption is that there's prejudice against them in games playing and it therefore must exist in the creation of games too. Ho-hum.

No, wait: artist.

And what an artist... that's some pretty amazing material there. If I could draw a quarter as well as that I'd do the cell art for Midsummer myself.

Speaking of which... anyone want to do some cell art for Midsummer? :D

(yes, I'm a girl)

You, madam, have made interference's "Trolling-for-girls" thread a success! ;)

For the record, the administrators know for a fact that there are several female lurkers, or else several men wil exceptionally girly emails.

Down, boys. Control your hormones. I've said this time and again in 6 years of seeing women (or people claiming to be women) appear in #verge... they're far away from you! There's no point in going ga-ga for girl-girl. ;)

Ah! THAT Tulokyn. I am in envy of your exceptionally clean and sharp portrait art. That little game was good, although intensely frustrating in several areas. Still, it *was* only a week.

I'm a Computer Aided Design student with delusions of grandeur: allows for a nice wide skill set incase I never make the computer games industry. I can design godawful cars instead.

You, madam, have made interference's "Trolling-for-girls" thread a success! ;)

Trolling? Moi? Damn, it was that obvoius?

Boy can I see where *this* is going...

Besides, I am a very shy young man who is frankly useless around women. Mostly.