Tropes vs Women: Ms Male Character and the Smurfette Principle

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**illuknisaa**

This is a bit off topic but if women want less troupes why don't they make a game of their own?

What I understand game studios are mostly male (cdpr has 1 woman and she is on pr).

**illuknisaa**

Lynata wrote:

illuknisaa wrote:This is a bit off topic but if women want less troupes why don't they make a game of their own?
What I understand game studios are mostly male (cdpr has 1 woman and she is on pr).

Because the industry is still essentially a boy's club, which leads to the already smaller pool of women who might be interested in such a job becoming even smaller. And you can't just decide to "make a videogame" and expect to have any success when you're not recruiting at least a number of people who already possess a certain knowhow and experience from their time with an established studio (which means leaving the company they "grew up" in, which makes that pool shrink even more) - securing the necessary funding alone would be nigh impossible ("ahahaha, you want how many millions for your inexperienced team?!"), and that's aside from the unwillingness of various publishers to fund games that do not fit into their .. let's call it "market strategy".

Honestly this is just complete bs. None of that really matters. When games were in their infancy nobody knew anything but somehow games like doom popped into existance. Mount&Blade was made by 2 people (a married couple btw) with no publisher.

**illuknisaa**

I don't see why women can't make their own games? Why do women want to change games like duke nukem or shadows of the damned?

Also I find this video pretty funny: