Making the idea of making a game more accessible.” That’s something that Anna Anthropy and those guys talk about all the time. And I guess there’s another aspect to the layers of diversity, which is the diversity of the developer. “The game industry needs more diverse representation in games. When you start to make a game about people, you really want to double-down on all the things that make people interesting. “But when I started, there was basically almost nothing. Games like CartLife, Gone Homeand The Novelist all deal with more down-to-earth concerns than most AAA titles. “There are some smaller indie games that are about people nowadays, which is great,” he continued. There’s tons of Sims but there’s basically no games about normal people.
That’s nice.’ As crazy as that sounds, that stuff matters once you’ve decided to make a game about people, which is my goal. “It really is like, ‘Oh, I should take a drink. The core experience is a psychological game of cat and mouse and he could conceivably just stick any old avatars in there and it would be the same experience, right? Why pursue this as a goal at all? I asked Hecker why diverse character inclusion would even matter to SpyParty. “Because this game is so weird and different and hardcore but in such a different way from most games, that I really want that kind of inclusive community and the diversity of community in addition to setting the example in the game.” I don’t want a big giant influx of people to swamp the community,” Hecker told me when we spoke over Skype last week.
“I have such a perfect community right now that I’m hoping we have a really slow steady growth. Hecker: “When you start to make a game about people, you really want to double-down on all the things that make people interesting. Noche spoke up soon after she started hearing offensive speech while playing and sparked a forum thread that gets at the heart of what SpyParty is trying to be and why Hecker believes having a plethora of diverse characters - people who look like they could pass by you in the street on any given day - will make his game better. Stuff like that gets written off as par for the course in other online communities, part of the unspoken price of entry players pay for the privilege of facing against each other in heated conflicts.īut one vocal SpyParty player going by the handle ‘noche’ didn’t want her little section of online multiplayer acreage to be like those other communities. With all that new activity came a few mean and unseemly comments about female players and the game’s bigger-bodied characters. After the open beta began in June, Hecker says SpyParty saw a 50% uptick in users. That last part is important, because the influx of new players that’s been coming into the beta has helped sharpen Hecker’s sense of what he wants to achieve with the game. Meanwhile, another person playing a sniper on a nearby rooftop tries to shoot the person that they believe to be the spy. About how we think others think we’re thinking when we know that they’re thinking about how we think.įirst, let’s review what we know about SpyParty: it’s a game where one person playing as a spy essentially tries to imitate the AI-driven characters at a fancy cocktail party while completing specific espionage goals within a time limit. It’s a game about human behaviour and how to fake it. He’s also talking about the varying skill levels players will be bringing into the game, as well as the diversity of the people who’ll be playing it. It’s not just the races, genders or sexual orientations of the playable characters that he wants to differentiate. When SpyParty creator Chris Hecker says he wants his tense, psychological espionage simulation to be the most diverse game ever, he’s talking triple-decker diversity.
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