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I’m sure you’ve heard it at some point. That feminists are having a negative impact on the creativity of game developers. That whenever a game is seen as “politically correct” someone is there to point out that this isn’t the choice of the developers, but some form of hidden agenda, created to make games “woke”... Continue Reading →
So, as you may have seen, I did talk a bit about the terms hardcore and casual and how meaningless I find they are in the context of gaming culture and game development. I also spoke a bit about what makes a gamer, what makes a casual gamer and what makes a hardcore gamer, and... Continue Reading →
If you are in any way part of gaming culture, you’ll know that gatekeeping is part of that culture. To my mind, and as part of a completely unproven hypothesis on my end, gatekeeping is about power. The power to include or exclude a person. Into or out of the culture. It’s also about proving... Continue Reading →
More specifically, we need to speak up about the circumstances and conditions that are fairly standard in game development. Just recently, a woman was fired from Bungie because she didn't use the right title in her social media accounts. She was reported by her coworkers. Today is my last day at Bungie, I have been... Continue Reading →
At least to a certain extent. The individuals called out during #MeToo are pretty much unaffected, or seem to be unaffected, while the people who spoke up against them are being hauled into court for libel, or hauled into the court of public opinion, where they are dismantled in a much more efficient manner than... Continue Reading →
In the last three months I have read three books. The reason it has taken me this long to read three books is because they're about games, and therefore not about me. I will explain this as I go along, but the basis of it all is that I am a woman. In game design... Continue Reading →
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