Gender Me Softly: or Why on Earth Should I Worry about Gender in Game Design?
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A perspective on how gender roles influence the game design process. As creators, we have a responsibility and we should always keep in mind the effects of our artefacts, and we should try to understand how they impact on our world. This workshop will highlight some bad and good practices in game design with a focus on how gender is represented in games.
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- 1. Gender Me Softly: or Why on Earth Should I Worry about Gender in Game Design? Marina Rossi @marinaponders marina@gamehappens.com
- 10. – Elizabeth Sampat “No one else has your exact lived experience, and when you bring your lived experience into a game in a real and intimate way, you create a game that no one else could make.”
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- 32. Photo credits: Naughty Dog
- 33. Photo credits: Bandai Namco Entertainment
- 36. Photo credits: Rockstar Games
- 37. Photo credits: Rockstar Games
- 39. White Cisgender Heterosexual Middle-class Able-bodied Neurotypical Male Photo credits: gamerant.com
- 41. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
- 45. (The Codes of Gender, directed by Sut Jhally, 2010)
- 51. ”My name is Dianna Agron and I am not a gamer.”
- 52. Source: ESA
- 53. Source: ESA
- 54. “Games are the ultimate expression of immersive empathy, because systems are the purest way to transfer feelings and mindsets between one person and another. Be intentional with your systems, honest with yourself and true to your experiences, and I promise you— you will make games that your players will never forget.” – Elizabeth Sampat
- 55. Why should it matter to me?
- 56. If it doesn’t, you are part of the problem.
- 57. Sheri Graner Ray, 2004
- 58. Source: Extra Credits, 2015
- 60. Source: GDC 2012 Game Industry 12% female
- 61. Source: GDC 2017 State of the Industry Survey 78% male 20% female 2% other
- 63. Harassment & Hate Campaigns
- 68. Best Practices
- 69. Life Is Strange Dontnod Entertainment, 2015
- 70. Lifeline Three Minute Games, 2015
- 73. “All of the choices in the game are binary choices: you make a choice to go left or right, [gender] is a choice that we asked the player to make without actually asking them to. It's silent and implicit, but it gives the player ownership over how they view Taylor.” – Mars Jokela
- 75. Sunless Sea Failbetter Games, 2015
- 77. Fallen London Failbetter Games, 2009
- 81. Ok, but why should I worry?
- 82. We Become What We Behold Nicky Case, 2016
- 89. The Birth of a Nation DW Griffith, 1915
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