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It has been a while since GamerGate. In the industry, time has passed. There are companies and developers who no longer were part of that painful and horrific time. They reclaimed Pepe the Frog and have no idea what seeing that frog as an emoji in a conversation is stressful and anxiety inducing. They didn’t... Continue Reading →
I've been at Sweden Game Conference all week. I did a talk on UX workflows that I'll get back to later on. I did however have several conversations with a bunch of women in the games industry or about to go into the industry. One of the things we talked about was comfort games that... Continue Reading →
So you might think that this statement is very definitive and absolute and you would be kind of right. You might also wonder if I’m actually serious, because damn, look at all those lovely games out there, with their graphics and their narrative and... yes. Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I know I’m right... Continue Reading →
I’m reading books about game design and game development at the moment. The reason I’m reading is because I actually want to read all those books I bought way back in order to see if they’re any good, really. One discovery that shouldn’t suprise me or bother me is the constant gendering of players as... Continue Reading →
This post is more about putting thoughts on paper than a finished hypothesis. It has to do with the (potential) conflict between identification with the avatar and the limited selection of said avatars, primarily because most of them are written and designed by white, heterosexual cis-men. Many games that deal with identification, call it stepping... Continue Reading →
I have to admit that I no longer expect anything from gaming culture. When I started out as a developer and started poking at the issues we had - and in many cases still have - I somehow expected that people would listen and pay attention. They did, in a way, but it was to... Continue Reading →
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