subject: The Craze On Free Girl Games [print this page] The online game industry targets games specifically to particular audiences, including female players of all ages. Common to many free girl games include features such as community development, advanced storylines, long-term planning or projects, and crafts. Games designed for girls often include the following elements:
Style: Dress-up and design games are hugely popular with both younger and older players. Younger girls can dress up their favorite Disney princesses and print out the results of their favorite outfits. They can also decorate My Little Pony, or dress up their dolls in Gown Up Games. Older female gamers can design outfits for their favorite celebrity on such websites as i-dressup.com and rainbowdressup.com. Free games featuring the ability to style hair and makeup can be found at clickdressupgames and dressupgold.com.
Decorating: Girls of all ages can take part in decorating games. Younger girls may want to design their favorite bedroom or kitchen, a playhouse, a Christmas tree or an Easter basket. Older girls can take a more in-depth design to their own bedroom, a perfect closet or their future home. Most of these games have the option to print out results, and feature interactive features..
Cooking: For girls interested in nutrition and cooking, games abound. From cupcake design to virtual sushi rolling, cooking games teach valuable skills including understanding and following directions, measurement, ingredients management and planning. Gaining virtual experience in baking, cleaning materials, nutrition, organic cooking and ethnic food varieties are important features of cooking games designed for girls. Some fun cooking games can be found at freecookinggames.net.
Community: Facebook and MySpace, popular social networking sites, host free online games, including Frontierville and Words With Friends. Skills needed for success in these games include social skills, working together, long range planning and resource management. Games with a focus on community give girls an opportunity to use valuable skills while having fun.
Treasure: Not as many options for adventure/treasure games exist for girls, although they are increasing in popularity. Familiar characters and popular websites such as Disney.com and DoratheExplorer.com offer some excellent adventure games for younger players. Older players can find treasure games in other familiar areas, including Autumn Travel Sister and Kim Possible. Older players can also play treasure games that have multi-player features.
Celebrity: A wide variety of games exist that focus on favorite celebrities, including Justin Bieber, Twillight and Hanna Montana. Often these games center on celebrity style, adventures, reading advanced storylines and designing rooms in celebrity homes.
Online games designed for female players are an increasingly lucrative piece of the gaming industry. Free girl games may have common features, but the most popular games have interesting storylines and unique features that appeal especially to girls.
