SJ Longthorne

This thread is applicable to game development generally. A common mistake is designing or writing a game that’s based on how you play or interact. This leads to making a game only for yourself — not a game for others. This is why I will beat that playtesting drum all day long.https://twitter.com/Gamedev_Rose/status/1314439119662018562 …

I weirdly had the opposite problem for a long time where I was designing on the basis of what I knew a different demographic liked, aka people with similar tastes to my partner and my male friends. It took me way too long to realise that my preferences were also valid.

I don't know if it's low self-worth or internalised misogyny, but I'd somehow, at some point come to the conclusion that things I liked or disliked that disagreed with the people around me were wrong, an exception, and to be ignored. Which is fucked.

I say internalised misogyny because a lot of those things turned out to be preferences I shared with more femme types. Somewhere along the line I'd totally just absorbed that idea that femme gaming preferences are inferior to masc ones.

@sarahlongthorne Yes yes yes!! I think your experience is shared with many people. I think it comes from the industry often still consciously or subconsciously thinking their default player is a specific male-combat-power-player specific audience.