I've been sitting on this one overnight and I can't bite my tongue any more, so I'll say it now. Don't bother trying to incorporate gender options if you're going to assume cis male and he/him is the default. Your gender bias is going to leak into all aspects of the story. https://twitter.com/WinterwolvesG/status/1320374664460382208 …
sorry but I don't understand, boy will be replaced by girl if player plays as female? instead of child, will say boy or girl. Anyway, it was just an unedited draft written by myself.
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What I believe Baiyu is trying to say is that: As writers, we come in with pre-conceived notions of gender/race/orientation even if those are things that can be changed. So the idea that you're using "he" as default implies a bias and will paint the rest of your writing.
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well, how can he know that just from reading 5 lines of text? I picked he but it doesn't mean anything, also in several points of the story several parts change depending which gender you pick. It's just an example
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Ok. But what if the player is non binary? Why not say child despite of gender?
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if I can add that without making it too complex I will. Otherwise I'll probably just not allow gender selection if the result is not good
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