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This study is to analyze experiences of female gamers who produce and consume 〈Oops! Prince〉 which is Indie/Dongin Games in Korea. The researchers also aim to delineate the cultural significance of certain female gamers who make their own text and community with male-homoerotic narrative spinning ...

This study is to analyze experiences of female gamers who produce and consume 〈Oops! Prince〉 which is Indie/Dongin Games in Korea. The researchers also aim to delineate the cultural significance of certain female gamers who make their own text and community with male-homoerotic narrative spinning of 〈Princess Maker〉, a well-known raising simulation game focused on existing male-centered ideologies. As a result of combining a variety of methods, in-depth interview and text analysis among others, researchers could highlight a few findings. Female gamers of 〈Oops! Prince〉 overcome gender trouble. This process induces double parody, which is subversion of women as a seeing subject from showing object, while asserting compulsory heterosexuality. Under the new set of parodied gender rules, women gamers realized that male gender can be dis-powered to empty signifier articulated as the versatile identification given to the ‘father’ and ‘son’ character of game in parodied gender order. From male gender to female, accessibility of flexible sexual identification through same channel is maintained in the new text. Women gamers overthrow conventional binary gender system and substitute or identify own gender in a unique text including the possibility of selecting mother and father. Eventually, female gamers draw conclusions to perform the game through critical approach of decomposing male gender, which appears as key characters in the game by playing 〈Oops! Prince〉. Female gamers occupy user position, but they consume the text and to create new complicated text and actively share cultural production. In cyberspace where Indie/Dongin games are both produced and consumed, female gamers incessantly takes part in this cycle. Women’s imagination determines the creative result of interactive activity in cyberspace. Female gamers consume Indie/Dongin games as fantasy device, which defy conformed sex order of reality and invite variable gender identities.

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