When I designed the player psychographics almost twenty years ago, the game was predominantly male (something around 95%) so I gave them male names without a lot of thought.



It’s been brought to my attention that it’s a little off-putting having all the psychological descriptors be male. If I had it to do all over again, I’d choose unisex names like Chris or Jamie, but it’s been twenty years so the names are pretty entrenched.



So I’ve decided to create female version to list along with the male versions to convey that these psychographic profiles apply to everyone. At first I thought of getting the female versions of the name (I’m leaving Spike be as it’s a nickname and I’ve known more female Spikes in my life than male). Johnni is a frequently used female name. Timmi, coming from Timmothea, a female version of Timothy is much rarer. The more I tried using it, the more it felt like a copout.



I then realized that there are two popular female names that are very close changing just the vowel. So from now on I’m going to refer to the psychographics as:



Timmy/Tammy

Johnny/Jenny

Spike



For the aesthetic scales (they aren’t psychographics) I will use:



Vorthos (as it’s made up I’ll assume it’s unisex)

Melvin/Mel