Episode 615: A 12-Year-Old Girl Takes On The Video Game Industry

Episode 615: A 12-Year-Old Girl Takes On The Video Game Industry

Maddie Messer is 12, and she loves a good video game. One of her favorites is called Temple Run. In fact, it's one of the most successful games out there. Temple Run is free to play—if you play as the default character, Guy Dangerous. But playing as a …

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Read this comic about a girl falling in love with PC games

When cartoonist Yao Xiao fell in love with video games, she was a 12-year-old girl growing up in China. Group sports had become less welcoming in adolescence, but PC games "provided a new 'arena' where I could be free of my physical form," she writes.

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How this 14-year-old girl designed, developed, and released her own mobile …

Crazy Block is a new free Android game available right now on Google Play. It's also the creation of 14-year-old Spanish girl Lucia Sanchez, who taught herself how to develop a game and released it earlier this month all on her own. She is the latest …

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Experience a difficult night in the life of a teenage girl

Freshman Year is the latest personal game from designer Nina Freeman. It's brief, and it tells an upsetting story — a teen in college goes to the local bar to meet a friend, only to have an unwanted interaction with the bouncer (take care playing if …

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