A game design document a highly descriptive document about the game design of a game. It is created and edited by the development team and it is primarily used in the game industry to organise things within the development of the game. The document is created by the development team as result of collaboration between their designers, artists and programmers as a guiding vision that is used through the development process.
Because of the dynamic environment of game development, the document is often changed, revised and expanded as development progresses and changes. This is why a game design document is often reffered to as a 'living document'.
A game design document is made up of text, images, diagrams, concept art, or any other media that illustrates design decisions.
Example game design document:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34994424/Viral-Light-Interactive-GDD
look at 3 games and 2 movies where stereo types are negativly re-enforced.
Individually write 200 word short design doc where all stereo types are positively enoforced. research aspects of the generic, include drawings in the doc.
Examine the game you are working on and objectively explore gender aspects their in.
http://www.gamesradar.com/the-top-7-stereotypical-gamers-we-hate/
This is a funny link I found where it talks about the different stereotypes of gamers and its quite funny how true some of these really are.
Tomb Raider
This is one of the few games where the main character is a female. The game actually focuses on the main character so much that she is probably the main selling point of the game. The reason for this is because they practically dress her in nothing and give her massive boobs. I think actually in the first game her boobs were bigger than her head...and obviously this may offend a lot of females if one of the biggest female game characters ever is only famous because she wears hardly any clothes. This effects the way men think of women in a few ways because if guys a playing games like this and have been now for several years its going to change the way they expect females to look.
http://www.armchairempire.com/images/previews/multi-platform/lara-croft-tomb-raider-legend/tomb-raider-legend-2.jpg
However the more games that have come out of Tomb Raider have seemed to see her gradually gain more clothes and more sense of realism about the character taking her original back story into effect. The latest tomb raider game released in 2013 was the first to see her fully clothed and slightly toned down to a more realistic scale. The game was a prequel and was about how she became to be known as 'tomb raider' and as with a lot of games these days this took on a more realistic and cinematic effect which I think paid off really well.
http://www.followingthenerd.com/site/wp-content/uploads/Tomb-Raider-2013.jpg
Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem portrays women as weak creatures he depend entirely on a male hero to save the day. The guys are portrayed as big ass fighters that feel no pain. The main character in this game has a complete disregard for women, he see's women as sexual objects existing only for his amusement. The font cover for this game really says it all...
http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=4375
Tera Online/ MMO's
Most MMO's these days portrays male and females in the same ways as mentioned above however more towards the females that are in the game. They tend to make them slim, tall and really good looking, similar to lara croft and again they wear hardly anything and have a certain sex appeal about them. Guys arent stereotyped as badly but still take the roll of being a strong guy that wants to smash everything.
http://www.f2p.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/TERA-wallpaper-1.jpg
Movies
I don't think movies are as stereotypical games are however they adapt things like this,
Everyone in Africa is either uncivilized or a warlord,
in movies Africa is considered a nasty place to be in, one of the iconic scenes showing this is Independence day where it shows the crashed alien ship in Africa with tribes men cheering then it pans to the crashed ship in america and they seem to have a military base....
White people are better at being asian than real asians. In the film The Last Samurai Tom Cruise seems to be better being a samurai than the actual Samurai... and this isnt the only film this is done in, its been repeated in various ways in many films.
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