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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 15 2014, @06:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-impossible-takes-a-little-longer dept.

lhsi writes:

"The Atlantic looked at a recent update from the developers of the game Desktop Dungeons to discuss problems with gender bias in gaming, asking 'can a work be racist or sexist if its creator doesn't mean for it to be?'

The developers of the game had recently been adding female character art to their game with the intention that they would be "adventurers first and runway models second." While actively trying to avoid doing everything the 'simple' way, they came into some problems due to subconscious shorthands creeping in.

"This adjustment turned out to be startlingly non-trivial - you'd think that a bunch of supposedly conscious, mindful individuals would instantly be able to nail a 'good female look' (bonus points for having a woman on our crew, right?), but huge swathes of our artistic language tended to be informed by sexist and one-dimensional portrayals. We regularly surprised ourselves with how much we took for granted.'"

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @08:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @08:13PM (#16937)

    I know the solution. Stop giving a damn.

    Announce that all characters, male, female, neuter, and tri-sexual alien, will be sexualized. Anyone who doesn't like it should feel free to blow their own brains out.

    And then move on with doing what you want to do, and if anyone whines and cries about it, ignore them.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @08:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @08:58PM (#16950)

    This. I'm laughing at the article, because they're so terrified of putting females in a box of labels that they've created their own special little box to throw women into.

    Some women are idiots. Some women could kill you with their brain. Some women have a basic understanding of how armor works. Some women like to show off skin.

    This is really easy, guys. You know how you design male characters?

    Do the same fucking thing for women.

    Protip: They're people, too. They're not a separate species. They're especially not a retarded fantasy race where every last one of them is homogenous in thought, word and deed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @09:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 15 2014, @09:41PM (#16962)

      I agree with most things but are you absolutely sure they're the same species? 'Cause sometime....

    • (Score: 2) by Sir Garlon on Sunday March 16 2014, @05:48PM

      by Sir Garlon (1264) on Sunday March 16 2014, @05:48PM (#17218)

      This is really easy, guys. You know how you design male characters?

      Do the same fucking thing for women.

      I think the entire point of TFA is that they tried exactly that, and found out it is easy to say and real goddamn difficult to do.

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      [Sir Garlon] is the marvellest knight that is now living, for he destroyeth many good knights, for he goeth invisible.