The Game Developers Conference got its tackle in a tangle over a competition to come up with a concept of a game about losing your virginity. The games industry is dominated by men and many of those who design games have not actually been with a real woman, so the competition was tough.

In the end it was two women who won the challenge with just 36 hours to prepare for it. The boys had weeks to hatch out an idea and could not manage it. The contestants are generally top-tier game designers like two-time winner and Spore and The Sims creator Will Wright, Deus Ex lead designer Harvey Smith, or 2008 winner and Leather Goddesses of Phobos creator Steve Meretzsky.

Organisers hope that such competitions will lead designers to stop thinking about dragons, monsters and chainsaw psychopaths. The two women came up with a concept for "Our first times," and presented it as a two-level game, one level for Kelley's experience and the other for Robinson's. They imagined a series of mini games that could be played on Nintendo's Wii or a smart phone.

The game starts with you having to pick an outfit that would be easy to get out of. There was a mini game where the person had to shave their legs and another where dinner had to be cooked that tasted good, but did not involve garlic. The main character was obviously a woman because the bloke in it seems largely clueless.

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