Originally Posted by Aulayna
A solid read. One criticism toward the end, though: You argue that Japanese games are more diverse than games developed in the west, but then attribute the lack of diversity in games to be due to the industry being dominated by Japanese white males?
There are a few other thoughts/critiques I had, but they seem well outside the intended scope of this article and would probably land it in Academia forum territory.
In that case while the Japanese make more female leads than western developers it's still rare to find games with people of color or non-heterosexual characters in their games.
I always wanted to make my own games since I was little and after reaching adulthood and seeing this problem my motivation for owning a game studio has added on a further purpose. I want to contribute adding more black and other characters into video games and become big enough so that others will follow. Like how Final Fantasy influenced me I would want my games to influence other people to get in to the medium.
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