Survey about Gender Diversity in Video Games

[Thestatusquo]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... ideo-Games

Pretty cool. Fill it out if you care about such things.

[Cyrus]

I like that the gender identity and race fields were write-in answers. Would that more survey-makers would do that.

[Thestatusquo]

I feel like its not surprising that the designer of a survey about diversity in games thought to let people self identify in that manner, but I also agree completely with you.

I don't feel uncomfortable putting down my race and gender identity in a check box, but that's because I fit inside of those checkboxes because of my privilege.

[quadz08]

you lucky duck

[Thestatusquo]

I get it.

[Hanasawa]

Filling this out because I damn do care about stuff like this.

[mykonian]

I don't get why they ask me about my racial background. I think I wish they wouldn't do that.

[quadz08]

In this case, it's specifically because it's a survey about race / gender representation, so they will presumably be separating their results into categories by race and gender

[mykonian]

But gender is a part of "me". I'm a guy and that makes who I am.

I'm not entirely sure if I want white (or whatever eufemism you want to use) to be part of my identity.

[quadz08]

bummer, man

[bv310]

Filled out, though I definitely don't come from the target audience in making games more diverse. I'm a healthy white male between the ages of 18 and 39, literally every game has at least one character I can identify with.

[Who]

Filled out, though I definitely don't come from the target audience in making games more diverse. I'm a healthy white male between the ages of 18 and 39, literally every game has at least one character I can identify with.

Speaking a (relatively) healthy white male between the ages of 18 and 39, several of those aspects are not crucial to my identity at all and do not help me identify with a character.

[bv310]

Agreed on a personal level, but on a general level, our demographic gets a shitton of representation in games, which was what I was trying to say.