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Purple Moon was an American developer of girls' video games based in Mountain View, California. Its games were targeted at girls between the ages of 8 and 14. The company was founded by Brenda Laurel and others, and supported by Interval Research. [4] They debuted their first two games, Rockett's New School and Secret Paths in the Forest, in 1997.
The game's genre is "friendship adventures for girls", which Wired deemed to be a new game category created by Brenda Laurel, Purple Moon's co-founder. [1] The game's design was built on the notion of girls not wanting to play as a superhero, rather as a friend, experiencing real-life events, encounters, and emotions that they would understand. [1]
Developer (s) Purple Moon. Genre (s) Interactive novel. Secret Paths in the Forest is a video game developed by Purple Moon. The game was designed to be episodic, [1] and spawned sequels entitled " Secret Paths to Your Dreams " and " Secret Paths to the Sea ”, which were released under Mattel after its 1999 acquisition of Purple Moon.
Brenda Laurel. Brenda Laurel (born 1950) is an American interaction designer, video game designer, and researcher. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality ", [1] a public speaker, and an academic. She was founder and chair of the graduate design program at California College of ...
Putt-Putt is a series of children's adventure and puzzle computer games created by Humongous Entertainment. This franchise was Humongous Entertainment's first game series to be developed. [ 1] They primarily involve clicking to get to a destination, although some sub-quests and mini-games involve the keyboard.
List of. Pokémon. video games. The official logo of Pokémon for its international releases. Pokémon (originally " Pocket Monsters ") is a series of role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. Over the years, a number of spin-off games based on the series have also been developed by ...
Sonic the Hedgehog, [a] trademarked Sonic The Hedgehog, [1] is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog and the main protagonist of the series. Developed as a replacement for their existing Alex Kidd mascot, as well as Sega's response to Mario, his first appearance was in the arcade game Rad Mobile as a cameo, before making his official debut in Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).
A notable developer of girls' games was Purple Moon, founded in 1995, which made a series of "coming-of-age games" featuring the teenager Rockett Movado. [1] Its products were part of the so-called "purple games" segment of girls' games, which based its games on market research into the preferences and tastes of young girls. Because these ...