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[Time Published October 27, 2013 at 03:06PM]
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Gender-inclusive game design made the Dance Central series a more fun and joyful experience for players, according to Harmonix game designer Matt Boch.
Speaking at the Queerness and Games Conference at the University of California, Berkeley this weekend, Boch — who is currently the creative director on Fantasia: Music Evolved — said that he pushed for Harmonix to have gender-inclusive dance routines in Dance Central because it would result in a better game.
According to Boch, during the early stages of Dance Central's development, many of the decision-makers at Harmonix were uncomfortable with seeing male avatars dancing in stereotypically feminine ways. They believed that it could potentially alienate players, and some also...
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[Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/27/5033274/how-gender-inclusiveness-made-dance-central-a-better-game] | Image URL: http://cdn0.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/21849835/dance_central_3.0_cinema_720.0.jpg]
[Time Published October 27, 2013 at 03:06PM]
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Gender-inclusive game design made the Dance Central series a more fun and joyful experience for players, according to Harmonix game designer Matt Boch.
Speaking at the Queerness and Games Conference at the University of California, Berkeley this weekend, Boch — who is currently the creative director on Fantasia: Music Evolved — said that he pushed for Harmonix to have gender-inclusive dance routines in Dance Central because it would result in a better game.
According to Boch, during the early stages of Dance Central's development, many of the decision-makers at Harmonix were uncomfortable with seeing male avatars dancing in stereotypically feminine ways. They believed that it could potentially alienate players, and some also...
Continue reading…
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[Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/27/5033274/how-gender-inclusiveness-made-dance-central-a-better-game] | Image URL: http://cdn0.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/21849835/dance_central_3.0_cinema_720.0.jpg]
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