ĭuncan spoke frequently of a proposed game for older girls called Apocalipstick. Zero Zero was "a period piece, and Blake used thick, crooked lines that sometimes seemed to suggest a woodcut drawing". Blake created more than 3,000 drawings for the game. Smarty maintained Chop Suey's "warm, handmade, and folk-inspired" look, but was also "less messy, and more idyllic, with more carefully rendered perspective with "loose and painterly" backgrounds. For Smarty and Zero Zero, Duncan collaborated with her partner Jeremy Blake. Gesue strived to design a "colorful, warm, and bright" game that contrasted with the way "a lot of computer graphics at the time were really icky". Ĭhop Suey was co-created with Monica Gesue and narrated by then-unknown author David Sedaris. Released in 1997, Zero Zero follows a young girl named Pinkee in fin de siècle Paris who hops from rooftop to rooftop, explores the catacombs, and experiences the city. Smarty (1996) tells the story of the titular young girl's visit to her Aunt Olive for the summer-there she hosts a spelling radio show, explores small-town life, and visits a mysterious dime store. 1995's Chop Suey is an interactive storybook, where two young girls explore the town of Cortland, Ohio. Īll three games created by Duncan are story-based and revolve around search and discovery. Duncan spoke out against market-tested girls' games characterized by an "earnest blandness" and a "perfunctory feminism slapping the pink bow on Pacman". These games were designed as alternatives to her traditionally male-oriented field where the few "girls' games" created embodied a "model of boy-catching self-fulfillment". Career ĭuncan created three influential CD-ROM computer games for young girls in the second half of the 1990s: Chop Suey, Smarty, and Zero Zero. By the late 1990s, she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed game designers for young girls. Theresa Duncan (Octo– July 10, 2007) was an American video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic. Video game designer, blogger, filmmaker, critic
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