Hi, I'm currently writing a paper on stereotypes of minority characters within video games, by stereotypes I mean the typical portrayal of female and ethnic characters; these can be both visual based or personality wise. I want to get the views of gamers and designers/developers for this topic, so as artists do you think…
I can understand the idea of this subject being quite broad, I don't really want to concentrate on either female or minorities characters, I want to do a collective on them both. I'm very interested in what Stabbington mentioned about people higher up the chain of production having a say on the character ethnicity, also…
@JamesOrdner I'd agree that females are becoming more clothed, however personally I think majority of the time they are used for eye candy. @KurtRussellFanClub Thanks for the reply, some really good questions there that I'll take into account. For the paper I plan to collect articles, characters references and…
@Zwebbie I'm not planning to write about "stereotypes are bad blah blah", the aim of the paper is to show examples of stereotypes and the get the perspective views of gamers and designers and whether there is a reasoning behind the inclusion of these stereotypes and whether they effect the gamers outlook of the game. I…