Male-connotated hobbies like football, basketball and car racing have several yearly releases in the AAA gaming space, while female-connotated interests are relegated to the low budget and indie spaces, if they get acknowledged at all. Even very basic principles of human interaction end up being gendered: care and nurture are perceived as feminine, aggression, destruction and violence as masculine.Īnd although we start to see more diversity in the gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity of protagonists of our AAA games, the mainstream gaming world largely keeps clinging to mechanics and themes that end up implicitly excluding the feminine.Įvery year, we get dozens of high budget games that are focused on combat.
Cars and guns and football for boys, fashion, dancing and cooking for girls. There is a wide variety of toys, themes, hobbies and interests that our society generally associates with one gender and not the other, even though there is no real reason for it beyond “that’s how it is”. And I believe this imbalance is a significant factor in the utter scarcity of well-made games about horses. What remains – and is rarely discussed as far as I can tell – is an imbalance between how our industry tackles subject matters and activities that have a gendered connotation. We have also started accepting that discrepancies in player demographics are often due to how games are made and marketed, and the notion that women just don’t play games as much is fortunately on its way out the door, slow as that process may be. That the female characters in our games should be more than damsels in distress or flawlessly sexy action babes is becoming more and more common knowledge in the video game industry, and games of various genres are starting to make an effort in terms of gender diversity. On the other hand, there has been a significant amount of progress in recent years. People have very strong opinions on how we should talk about sexism and gender in video games and characters, and unfortunately sometimes the loudest of those opinions is just “don’t”. Chat with numerous characters and complete both main and secondary quests.Talking about Gender and Gaming is always a bit of a Pandora’s box. Ride your horse exploring huge and spacious locations. How will your story end? What are the consequences of making different choices as you play? Will you manage to save the ranch and become the most famous trainer of young stallions. Make your choices and enjoy the absolute non-linearity of the game. Teach horses new moves and tricks, hose down their fur, change horseshoes and more. The game gives you the opportunity to find out what it is like to have your own ranch and live in isolation from the bustle of the city. Train your stallion and place bets to earn money, allowing you to buy new horses and buy improved equipment. Feed the animal, care for it and invest in raising it. Raise your foal from the moment it is born. The sequel to Petz Horsez 2 offers a lot more content than the first game. Manage an entire ranch and save it from ruin. You can train champions, raise horses, raise young into adults, and much more.
#END OF PETZ HORSE CLUB SIMULATOR#
Petz horsez 2 - a simulator that allows you to mount a horse and satisfy all your passion and love for these wonderful animals.
0 kommentar(er)
