Theresa Duncan Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Theresa Duncan Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Theresa Duncan (October 26, 1966 â€" July 10, 2007) was an American

video game designer, blogger, filmmaker and critic. By the late 1990s,

she was recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed game

designers for young girls.Collaborating with her boyfriend Jeremy

Blake, Duncan created three influential CD-ROM computer games for

young girls in the second half of the 1990s: Chop Suey, Smarty, and

Zero Zero. 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". Duncan spoke out

against market-tested girls' games characterized by an "earnest

blandness" and a "perfunctory feminism [like] slapping the pink bow on

Pacman".All three games created by Duncan are story-based and revolve

around search and discovery. 1995's Chop Suey is an interactive

storybook, where two young girls explore the town of Cortland, Ohio.

Smarty (1996) tells the story of the titular young girl's visit to her

Aunt Olive for the summerâ€"there she hosts a spelling radio show,

explores small-town life, and visit a mysterious dime store. 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.Chop Suey was co-created with Monica Gesue and

narrated by then-unknown author David Sedaris. 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". For Smarty and

Zero Zero, Duncan collaborated with her partner Jeremy Blake. 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. Blake created more

than 3,000 drawings for the game. Zero Zero was "a period piece, and

Blake used thick, crooked lines that sometimes seemed to suggest a

woodcut drawing".
Theresa Duncan Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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