This is a post that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and it is possible that I’ve already touched on the subject previously. I speak a lot about equality and diversity, and how games sometimes let us down when it comes to narrative, and representation. In this post I’ll be talking about how all... Continue Reading →
Don’t put the onus on margies
We’re celebrating Pride this month, and in the interest of pulling some weight and explaining how the work with inclusion and diversity affects marginalized people and how privileged people sometimes add to that burden, I want to talk about a situation that probably happens more often than you’d think. The recruitment talk. Whenever one of... Continue Reading →
Är rollspel så demokratiskt?
I påskas var jag på konvent för första gången sedan jag vet inte när. Det var underhållande att återvända, men också väldigt ögonöppnande. En bekant till mig kom förbi och nämnde ”demokratiseringsprocessen” runt rollspel. Det vi diskuterade var att tack vare print on demand och crowdfunding så har ”alla” tillgång till de verktyg de behöver... Continue Reading →
Gaming Culture Confuses Me
Here’s a thing I will never understand with gaming culture. I don’t understand why we have to wholeheartedly throw ourselves over a game and praise all aspects of it. At some point we have to be able to say “I loved this part, this expression, but I didn’t like that part.” Doing that, both in... Continue Reading →
The Perfect Woman
Mass Effect 2 introduces the player to the perfect woman. Her name is Miranda Lawson. The back story of Miranda Lawson is this. She was genetically engineered by her father to become the perfect woman. Everything about her is designed, but as we shall discover, Miranda’s perfection is not everything it’s hyped up to be.... Continue Reading →
Bye Bye BioWare
I wrote this on a flight from Edmonton to Amsterdam. I was on my way to a new job, back home to Sweden again. I’m leaving BioWare behind. There are reasons for this, and there’s no real reason why I can’t explain what happened and how it happened, but for now, I am choosing not... Continue Reading →