Women in videogames & further feminist theory
Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate? Ten years ago, a game developer’s aggrieved ex-boyfriend published a vindictive screed accusing her of trading sex for favourable reviews of her indie game. This was leapt upon by the least savoury corner of the 2014 internet, 4chan, and kicked off a harassment campaign that broadened to include all women working in video game development or the gaming press, as well as the industry’s LGBTQ+ community. 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc ? Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology. 3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? The games industry knows that a greater breadth of content, featuring a greater breadth of char...