Introduced a tool that will allow you to create more gay, female and black characters for games

The further away from the “norm” the betterThe MIT game research team, together with the staff of King, one of Activision Blizzard King's top three studios, developed the Diversity Space Tool. It is intended for game developers: it allows you to create more diverse characters. However, not everyone liked this approach.Discuss

Diversity Space The Tool allows you to evaluate the characteristics of the characters and their compliance with the ideas of the “norm”. The program measures age, race or nationality, mental and physical ability, physique, sexual orientation, gender, socioeconomic status. All this should help developers to detect stereotypes in time when creating heroes.

The Diversity Space Tool is set to be launched this summer at Activision Blizzard studios. It is alleged that the tool has already been tested on Call of Duty: Vanguard and Overwatch 2. , too prudent and cynical.


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