Our West Coast correspondent Mari Takahashi sat down with Sucker Punch co-founder Brian Fleming to talk about the historical authenticity-or lack thereof-in Ghost of Tsushima, and how the open-world epic’s characters reflect that conflict. Watch Speedrun on /lTOP5Hgy9c- Polygon July 17, 2020Įarlier this week, we tackled the theme of “character creation” from another angle.

Today on Speedrun, talks to one of the most prominent modders in #TheSims4 community, about the problems with diversity in video games and how she is trying to make the gaming space more inclusive.

“Or they cannot hire someone to do what I’m doing, to make people feel represented in their games.” “I am self-taught, so if I can do this, I don’t see why any gaming company cannot do this,” Ebonix told us on today’s episode of Speedrun. She’s created hundreds of aesthetic options for black characters, ranging from cornrows and dreads to stitch braids and goddess locs. And it’s one that The Sims 4 modder Ebonix has been working to rectify for five years now. I’ve been playing too many games to worry about self-expression with my digital avatars, so more often than not, I select the default hero, or one of the first presets I come across, and continue on my way.Īs a white dude with green eyes, brown hair, and stubble, default characters usually look like me anyway - but that’s sort of the whole problem.

I wanted him to look like me.īut as the years passed, character creation became less of a springboard and more of a roadblock. My first few hours with Mass Effect, Fallout 3, and Dragon’s Dogma were consumed by face lifts and haircuts, pulling on a cheekbone here, rounding out a jawbone there.

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