During a game’s development, narrative consultants will be hired by studios to help with fleshing out or tweaking narrative elements, Kenney said. “Narrative consultants do not get final say,” Kenney reiterated. "It doesn’t get into the game if we [as the developer] don’t approve it.

“They consult. They do research, pitch ideas, give feedback, and maybe even write scripts. But none of that gets into the game unless the core dev team agrees with it. I’m going to keep saying that, because it’s key. Sweet Baby is not, nor is any consulting group, coming in to wreck games. They’re helping smooth out plots and deepen characters. They ease the burden on the core narrative team. They’re additive in every way.”

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    8 months ago

    At this point I want more woke stuff in games just to bother the losers out of the hobby, or to get them used to it

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        8 months ago

        “Video games are worse when I see a dude in a wheelchair” is a take.

        Out of curiosity, do you work in the sanitation field? It’s clearly seen you’re a garbage person, just wondering if you’re a garbageperson as well.

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          8 months ago

          Hey now, let’s not slander the fine people who take care of our refuse by lumping them in with this asshole.

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        8 months ago

        The games are not worse for having woke stuff. To me, it’s no different from having guitars in the soundtrack.

        “I want guitars in game soundtracks because it annoys the people who want game soundtracks without guitars”.

        Sounds petty when you put it that way.

        Now replace “guitars” with something that’s objectively positive for society (e.g., inclusion), and any reasonable person would see that it’s ok.