This is ask a doll, and you’re in my special corner of the world now.  Make yourself at home.

Maverick 412 asks… What is it like being most recognizable Girl gamer groups in the world?

I’m not going to lie, it’s pretty fantastic. I have a free laptop from dell, more than 1TB of external storage kicking around my house, free cable internet from Comcast, a Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 courtesy of Ubisoft, free Ubisoft games, I’ve been able to go to Europe on Ubisoft’s dime, I even got a pair of slave boys to feed me grapes.  Well, no, I haven’t got that yet, but I’m working on it. It’s on my priority list just below a magic carpet.

Mookel asks… If reincarnation is real, what would you like to come back as?

A housecat.  Think about it. They get to chill out all day, sleep 16 hours, get backrubs all the time, and no one expects them to clean up after dinner.  I don’t want to be an alley cat dumpster diving for scraps, mind you. I want to be spoiled by one of those owners who hold conversations with their cats (which I will ignore, since I’m a cat, but they can talk and spoil me).

LoserKid3000 asks… Will there ever be another Frag Doll opening? And if there is, will it be announced on this site?

Never say never.  I don’t see any openings in the near future or anything because our team right now is amazing, but someday we’ll need new blood.  And then, yes, of course we’ll announce it on our website.  Probably in florescent glittery letters with trumpet sound effects to make sure everyone who visits the website knows that we’re looking for a new member.

MLGSkinny asks… Unless I’m just not seeing it why are there no halo 3 forums? Are you trying to make a statement about how much you hate halo or is there just not one? Thanks.

Uh, yeah, we totally hate Halo and that’s why there are no forums here… do you wear tinfoil hats to bed or something?  A bunch of the Frag Dolls love Halo. If there’s not a forum here about it that’s probably because these are the Ubisoft forums and you should be looking for bungie.net.  If by “forum” you meant “threads in this forum” then, uh, maybe it’s because we’re all busy getting pumped up for Vegas 2 or watching transsexual midgets impersonate Amy Winehouse.

DocHolidazed asks.. (a really long question which I will helpfully paraphrase) What do you want gain from this experience as a FragDoll? Or better put, what are you hoping to take with you when you move on? How would you want to be remembered? In your humble opinion. Do you believe that the Fragdolls have succeeded thus far in their goals?

Ok, first of all, dude, questions that last 3 paragraphs fall under the TLDR (too long didn’t read) category so isn’t it great I’m so thorough?! Anyway.  One of the great things I wanted to experience when I joined Frag Dolls was to meet other female gamers. Before the team I had a bunch of gamer friends, but they were mostly guys. The girls I knew were gamers’ girlfriends who were cool enough to join in their boyfriend’s hobby, but didn’t necessarily care about games on their own. Mission accomplished! I’ve met loads of female gamers since then. I also really wanted to meet more people in the industry and turn it into an industry job. Mission also accomplished! It’s been a great ride so far and I look forward to seeing where it goes.

I want to be remembered as the mean one who could never decide on her haircolor.  So far I think I’m doing a good job. I also want to be remembered as Josh’s BFF, which is straight up rad. Uh, and maybe as the one with the Nintendo zappers.  As for what I want to take with me… give me my friends and my illustration and I’ll be a happy camper.

Part 3 (good lord this is long) I think so far the Frag Dolls have done a great job of balancing our Ubisoft sponsorship and promotion with the desire to promote female gamers. Even though a lot of the community doesn’t see everything we do, there’s quite a bit of work behind the scenes to promote female gamers. From holding FPS clinics to speaking on panels to highlighting that “hey, we’re here, and we like games and that’s totally normal,” we do a lot.  I can’t say we take all the credit for the advances made in female gaming visibility over the last few years, but I like to think we’re part of it.  More and more I see feedback like “female gamer, so what?” and that makes me pretty happy.

Ninja Raiden asks… Do you find it difficult on occasions when you need to act as a moderator if it’s the posting of a person you know?

Uh, no.  That’s why I will be remembered as the mean one.  Even people I know and love can be jerks, and even though I love them that’s not ok so they get a slap for it.  I am Judge Jinxy.

Seductivpancake asks… Theres a ghost in the neighborhood. Who you gonna call?

Uh, wait. Hold on.  I’ve almost got this one.  Hmm, ghosts… neighborhood… that should mean something. And I’m almost sure there was a slimer involved.  Maybe a giant Marshmellow and a lady that turns into a big dog… Who am I kidding? That’s crazy talk! I got nothing.

Otnemem_IroM asks… What movie would you like to be seen made into a game?

You know what would be excellent? A Spirited Away game that retains the beautiful cinematic illustration of the movie.  I have big hearts for Miyazaki.  Studio Ghibli is the new Disney!  It could be a great action adventure game with a really cool open level design for the bathhouse and nice side-quests like taking the train. OR it could be an awesome bathhouse for the gods sim. Like lemonade stand, right? Except SO MUCH COOLER.

scworld asks… which sites did you make and could you list some techniques/libraries that you used?

I made websites for American McGee’s Alice, Clive Barker’s Undying, Black & White, The Longest Journey, and Shadowbane, among additional non-gaming projects like a dental supply website, which is FUN! Except when it’s not.  I began with traditional HTML before moving on the Perl and PHP with SQL databases.  I know a bit of Java, JavaScript, and CSS but don’t use them regularly.  And are you seriously asking techniques? As in object-oriented or do you want to know the exact while{} statement I used to break screenshots into rows of 3 because, uh. No. I don’t have enough space in the blog for codeshare even if it is beautiful and organized and logical.

- jinx

i’m gonna sew my name into all of your clothes