Month: January 2017

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The Creative Act of Listening to a Talking Frog

Kermit the Frog gives a talk on creativity and creative risk-taking

We touched upon the subject of how taking no creative risks leads to creating content that is not only unoriginal, but also casually offensive. 

Also, more often than not, the belief in effectiveness of tired formulas seems to go hand-in-hand with this weird conviction that anything an artist makes is inherently “creative” and therefore should not be criticized. Or revised. Which is, to say the least, a pretty damn disingenuous attitude.

~Ozzie

more about “creative freedom”

Given this week’s trend on showcasing games so generic that they can literally be using the same assets it seems appropriate to bring back these wise words from Kermit the Frog about creative risk taking.

Also to not-so-subtly hint that there’s a whole lot of potential for creative exploration in the realm of badass women who are not dependent on appealing to the male gaze or wearing ridiculous “armor” to show off that they don’t need armor.

Just saying.

– wincenworks 

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Tidy Up Tuesday #55

Been a while since we’ve done a tidy up.

We do try to keep our posts brief and primarily focus on costume and character design for female characters – since focusing on every aspect of many designs and companies could literally take pages and pages.

If you’re interested in other issues of representation we highly recommend checking out the following blogs:

We also recommend checking out our related sites.

Things e addressed before:

~Ozzie & -wincenworks

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While her kit certainly isn’t as bad as say, Cindy’s, it’s safe to say that Aranea Highwind’s battle gear has a lot of room for improvement – mostly due to some questionable priorities.  The most baffling of which being headgear that would stab her in the throat and/or chest if she looked down in a panic.

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And while it’s certainly true that they boys on the road trip are wearing some very nice, very tight fitting black leather there’s two important points I’d like to bring up:

  1. They’re supposed to be dressed to go out on a nice road trip which will end in a wedding and it’s the whim of fate that puts them on perilious adventure.
  2. Their clothes are actually clothes, this is a weird fetish outfit.

Final Fantasy, as always, continues to be a very oddly mixed bag.

– wincenworks

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Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel is a game that the western distributors (Marvelous USA) have been trying to cross market to Skullgirls players but apparently don’t want to admit to having on their web site:

I stress that on their Facebook promotion, literally the only reason they can think of for you to buy this game is you’re going to get a discount if you already own Skullgirls.  That’s it – even though the game offers none of the quirk.

Unsurprisingly while it has positive reviews the majority of them barely clear two hours of gameplay and the multiplayer well…

For people making fighting games: excessive T&A didn’t save Soul Calibur: Lost Swords and it won’t save your game either. 

– wincenworks

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So apparently HiRez has revealed their newest addition to SMITE, the Celtic goddess The Morrigan… who looks suspiciously like they borrowed fan art from another character who bears the name Morrigan.  The video does confirm that they at least read the Wikipedia page, but apparently had no concerns to come up with their own interpretation.

Of course, not all her skins revealed to date look like “empowered” fan art of Bioware’s Morrigan.   There’s also one that looks like sexy fan art of Leliana (dressing up as a Dalish elf):

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Of course, both are complete with strange woad body art (complete with them treating it as interchangeable with henna) and wear even less than the characters from Dragon Age do, and have zero items of traditional Celtic attire such as  

In summary:

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– wincenworks

This… is so far the most shameless SMITE got with a female character design. 

Unlike with Nike who looks like a lovechild of Zarya and Mercy, no-one in their right mind can argue this Morrigan is an original twist on the mythical figure. Or that any resemblance to a character from a different game is coincidental.

~Ozzie