Games on Gender

Game Design Documents

A game design document is a document detailing everything the game is about, how it works and who it’s for. This would be handed to people who are considering investing into this game project or even a development team.

Shred Nebula’s design document show a lot of details on how the game functions including it’s concept and idea.

Gender

Always bad guy, bad guy steals girl, guy rescue girl.
For example Donkey Kong is the game’s villain who holds Peach who is the games main

Evony is extremely sexualised in it’s adverts.

Negatively re-enforced stereotypes

 Makoto from Enchanted arms is one of the game’s playable characters is who presented and stylised as a extremely camp transvestite, he is portrayed with the negative stereotype showing that all transvestites are considered gay and overly flamboyant all the time. 

Makoto continually hits on the other male playable character Toya showing a clear attraction to him but never keeps it subtle, the issue with this is showing that all Transvestites are crossing dressing men that only think about getting into another man's pants.

Lara Croft from Tomb Raider, the game’s protagonist who is a rather large breasted tiny waist woman, she in almost all the Tomb Raider games is given a sexualised body image which has been the case for a long time as it has become one of the main attraction to the male gaming audience.

Yuna, Rikku and Paine are another 3 examples from Final Fantasy X-2, the three of them in this picture (especially Yuna in the middle) have again been made to appear sexualised which becomes a male target audience. Yuna for example wears hot pants that fits tightly onto her buttocks revealing a thick curved line.

One huge aspect of body sexulisation in the game is the use of "dress spheres" which gives gives each character a different costume for their varying powers, some are made to be more sexual than others.

Sara Connor from Terminator is a good example of a positive female role as opposed to the majority of negative sexualised roles, she becomes stronger, agile and fearless after being chased by terminator, because it is breaking down stereotypes as opposed

 

two films, positive game document