Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on. Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate? A harassment campaign that broadened to include all women working in video game development or the gaming press, as well as the industry’s LGBTQ+ community. 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc? Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology. They think that Sweet Baby has written and controlled almost every popular video game of the past five years, shutting straight white men out. 3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? Nobody is forcing diversity into video games. It is happening naturally, as players and developers themselves diversify. Gamergate didn’t intimidate women out of video games 10 years ago, and we won’t be intimidated now. P...
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