This post is the first of two reviews of Tomb Raider (2013). We chose to review this video game because of the original marketing for the game, as well as the final result. The first review is by Brie, who is a casual video gamer, and the second will be from Melody, who is...
Read more →So I wrote a game called A Tragedy in Five Acts, which is finally done and available at DriveThruRPG.net in PDF, with hardcopy going out to Kickstarter backers (thank you!) in the next week or so as the printer ships it, and then up on the site for sale. Tragedy is an indie, one-night,...
Read more →This is the follow up to the previous article Men wear armour, Women wear sexy-time lingerie. Here I address issues of how men and women are pictured in games, beyond what they are wearing. We will try to answer the this two common questions that often arise in discussion: “What is wrong with pictures...
Read more →Sometimes, two questions pop up when you discuss women wear when they are pictured in games. ”What is wrong with chainmail bikinis? It’s fantasy, it doesn’t have to be realistic!” ”What is wrong with chainmail bikinis? Sexy doesn’t equal sexist!” Let’s try to answer the two questions in this article. In the end they...
Read more →In my previous post, I mentioned that I was hired by Andy Kitkowski to write an alternate setting for the translated Tenra Bansho Zero and got Andy to explain some of the cultural differences important to keep in mind when discussing some of the more problematic aspects of Tenra. Going into the project, I...
Read more →Tenra Bansho Zero is a hugely popular anime-themed tabletop roleplaying system first released in Japan. For many years, Andy Kitkowski had been working on translating the material and getting it ready to publish for North American audiences. When Andy was getting the Kickstarter together earlier this year, he wound up contacting me about doing...
Read more →This is a topic that frustrates me almost every time it comes up. You’re sitting at a game with your friends. You ask yourself why there aren’t enough women/minorities/gnomes at the table. Why it’s so hard to get some of your friends interested in the hobby. See, they like the same geeky media as...
Read more →I have been incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to do an e-mail interview with Judy Bauer, an editor at Paizo Publishing. Judy primarily does editing for Pathfinder, and she has been kind enough to provide us with some extensive and awesome responses to our questions about her history, being a woman in the...
Read more →It kind of comes back to the Joan of Arc thing for me. Joan is a well known Unicorn. When you talk about war and combat and battles and being epic and awesome in that way, people talk about heroes of war and they talk about men. (There are a LOT of games that...
Read more →This dad is awesome for making The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker into a game that had pronouns appropriate to his daughter’s preference. This guest post at Skepchick from a mother addressing bullying talks a lot about tolerance, and I think it’s something that applies to far more than just bullying of children –...
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