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Why LongStory?
- 1. More Inf o: http://longstorygame.com 1 A dating game for the real world
- 2. THE PROBLEM More info: http://longstorygame.com 2 GIRLS ARE GROWING UP IN A DIFFICULT TIME
- 3. THE PROBLEM: More Inf o: http://longstorygame.com 3 GIRLS ABSORB MEDIA MESSAGES
- 4. MEDIA MESSAGING BY THE NUMBERS IN 80 GAMES RATED ‘TEEN’ 27% included overtly sexual themes 45% showed cleavage of ‘unrealistic’ proportion. OF 4,000 CHARACTERS G-RATED FILMS: 72% of speaking characters were male OF 1000 CHILDREN’S TELEVISION SHOWS: to one. More info: http://longstorygame.com 4 Boy characters outnumber girls two
- 5. More Inf o: http://longstorygame.com 5 OUR COMPETITION
- 6. THE OPPORTUNITY 846,000 tween girls in Canada and 18 million in the US play video games More Inf o: http://longstorygame.com 6 Less than 5 companies in North America make games for them.
- 7. THE PRODUCT More Inf o: http://longstorygame.com 7 Long Story is a dating game that helps girls sandbox healthy relationships, self-esteem and sexuality.
- 8. More Inf o: http://longstorygame.com 8 WELCOME TO WEASEL HEIGHTS
- 9. HELP US CHANGE GAMES FOR GIRLS FOR THE BETTER More Inf o: http://longstorygame.com 9 QUESTIONS?
Editor's Notes
- Elysse: Hello everyone welcome to LongStory. We know you’ve read all about the game from our application forms so what we’d like to do now is tell you about why LongStory is so important.
- Just play the video here.
- Elysse: Girls today are growing up in an atmosphere that can be counterproductive to their happiness and health.Popular media teaches girls that they are only lovable if they are pretty – whatever pretty means – or when they are loved by a certain type of boy. There are more than 500,000 pretty or ugly videos like the one I just playedon youtube, & thousands of tumblrs that have similar messages. As adults, we know ‘never read the comments’. Tweens don’t know and never will if they don’t have better examples of ways to understand their self-worth.
- Miriam:Girls are used to being objectified. They give up their voices & focus on their appearance to get what they want out of life.While things are slowly changing in TV and Movies - think The Hunger Games or Dora the Explorer, games have not. Why aren’t there more & better games for girls?
- Miriam:These screenshots are from popular games that are currently on the market.Parents may not realize that when their daughter plays “Shopaholic: Models”, “Sara’s Cooking Class” or Modern Girl on her iPad she is getting life lessons that could come from a 1945 book on etiquette or more perversely the TV show Girls Gone Wild.
- Elysse: There are 900,000 tween girls in Canada and nearly 20 million tween girls in the US. Most of them play games on their mobile devices and many of them also play games on the web.There is a huge market for games for girls but it’s being filled with garbage. There are almost no studios producing quality games for tween girls. The fewcompanies that do create ‘good’ games for this market have solid revenue streams. For example,Surviving High School by EA has been around since 2005. It was recently re-released using a new subscription model and a companion young adultnovel published by Little Brown.
- Miriam: LongStory is a test flight for your social life. It doesn’t shy away from difficult topics, but it’s also fun, entertaining and more importantly, it’s kind. LongStory reinforces girls’ experiences and agency as players and as young people entering the world of adult choices and consequences. There are a lot of big ideas in LongStory but they are in a package that anyone can enjoy and understand.We’ve been testing our demo with tweens around the city since August and it’s gotten incredible feedback.
- Miriam(through trailer): In the game, you play as a new student entering grade 8 after a year abroad. Your task is to solve mysteries and make friends. You can flirt with 5 different non-player characters: 2 girls, 2 boys and one mystery character! LongStory is a true social sandbox - young people are not uniformly heterosexual and LongStory has been designed to help tweens negotiate and explore their emerging identities - whatever that identity may be - in a way that is fun and safe.----- Meeting Notes (11/1/2013 14:24) -----Try to time the "whatever that identity may be” to coincide with turkeyhawk showing up
- Elysse: We think it’s time for a game that offers a real experience to girls one that is as rich and complex as their lives.Corus and Shaw have extensive experience working with families and kids and we’re excited to benefit from their insight and expertise.We’ve done a lot of research on the tween market and we have a lot of ideas about how to market and distribute the game, but we need advice on which is the best option to run with. With Ideaboost’s help, we hope a solid business plan, build a viable marketing and distribution strategy, and create business partnerships that will set the game up for commercialsuccess. Miriam: We have a lot of experience with game design & production, and producing high-quality service work, and are ready to make the jump to independent studio. We know with LongStory we have a sustainable idea – we’re looking for help developing a model for our own productions. We welcome your questions.