Comfort Zone

Lately there have been a bunch of shifts in the terrain of game development and the gaming culture surrounding it. There have been discussions about women in games. National newspapers in Sweden and abroad are starting to talk about the sometimes toxic culture that women navigate in order to participate in games. This makes me... Continue Reading →

Feministiska utrymmen

Det börjar bli något av en följetång. Idag såg jag på fejjan att min goda vän Jens hade länkat till en bloggpost där GothCons jämställdhetsagenda var En Dålig Sak™, samt ett påstående om att jag gått till personangrepp på sagda bloggare. Istället för att göra det här till någon slags bloggfejd så tänkte jag resonera... Continue Reading →

FemCon

Förra helgen var jag i Umeå och föreläste om att skapa och spela jämställt. Min vana trogen tänkte jag lägga upp både föreläsningsanteckningar och föreläsning på bloggen, men jag har inte hunnit fixa med det än, för det inbegriper bland annat att skriva ett ordentligt manus. Jag var som sagt på FemCon och utöver att... Continue Reading →

I don’t even…

... wow... I'm like... okay? What?! I was just looking around on Steam and lo and behold - the most sexist game yet? As I think I mentioned in my GTAV blog posts and the article me and Maria Myhr wrote for Aftonbladet about GTAV, there's a fine line between satire and well - not... Continue Reading →

Deep, deep down

On occasion, I'm sort of worried that my voice is no longer needed, or perhaps that it is too shrill, too aggressive and perhaps too persistent*. But then I see stuff like this article, where it is reported that the first game on a next gen engine won't even feature playable women, and if you... Continue Reading →

Don’t give us a bad name!

Today, I've learned how to use raw_input() in Python. However, learning scripting can be slightly taxing on the brain, so I took a break and I caught this little gem via Jenny Haniver on Twitter. The quote below is from a reddit thread in Girl Gamers. No. The guy IS a dick, and what he... Continue Reading →

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