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From: adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton)
Subject: Re: Are text games male oriented?
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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1993 05:10:55 GMT
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In article <2bkgcsINNi1k@life.ai.mit.edu> dmb@ai.mit.edu writes:
>I know this is tooting my own horn (sort of), but get the Rylvania demo
>from ftp.gmd.de and have her play through it.  Your character is male, but
>I don't think it's any more male-oriented than (say) an Anne Rice novel.
>If she does, I'd find that interesting.

Hunh.  I've played _Rylvania_ all the way through, and I never _could_ tell
which sex I was supposed to be.  I figured it had been left deliberately
ambiguous.  Dave, where does it ever say--or imply--that you are male in
the game.  (there may have been clues I just missed)

Adam
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