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Diversity in games. How to think about how a game can reach a diverse crowd? By having characters that represent you. I would most of the time take Adam and my white friend would take Axel and that just made fucking sense and felt good.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is it important to have different characters?\u201d<\/em> likes to wonder the industry today. It\u2019s because it is important. We\u2019re telling you, you don\u2019t need to and shouldn\u2019t question us for telling you. Do the work.<\/p>\n 90s Japanese developers didn\u2019t ask, they just did. It made sense to have a diverse representation when making and marketing a game for the West. Note how it wasn\u2019t a feature to have a black guy and a woman in the cast, it was just normal iteration from anonymous dudebros in previous beat \u2018em all. Realism and broadening audience worked in pair at that time. Shit made sense.<\/p>\n Music is the most powerful medium for thought, mood and movement control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Heard that somewhere on the internet, totally true.<\/p>\n Which is why music and sfxs are important in games because they are ART. They emotionally connect you way more than pixels ever will, it\u2019s deep son. There isn\u2019t a game forum out there without a \u201cfavorite music?\u201d thread going on for pages and pages. You can hear Sonic\u2019s ring sound and you\u2019re immediately excited.<\/p>\n Yuzo Koshiro demanded to have his name on the main title screen. As a kid I was like, \u201csweet, that\u2019s what I want to do too!\u201d<\/em>. I learned two decades later that he had to fight Sega very hard (and pretty much killed his career) for this because they didn\u2019t want artists to become famous, but that single line on that start screen made me think music in games was a beautiful thing to craft and super important. Funny how things go sometimes.<\/p>\n Game designers and programmers are usually pretty happy to show you how they don\u2019t know anything about music and sound, it\u2019s a little disheartening. I \u201cknow\u201d how shaders work or what inverse kinematic is even though they don\u2019t add much to a game except sucking up all the budget. So a game developer should definitely know about the most powerful medium for interactivity and feel, me think.<\/p>\n That Streets of Rage game set up my expectations and dreams for game development and nothing went right. It\u2019s so weird, it looked so promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Diversity in games. How to think about how a game can reach a diverse crowd? By having characters that represent you. I would most of the time take Adam and my white friend would take Axel and that just made fucking sense and felt good. \u201cWhy is it important to have different characters?\u201d likes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n