So Nintendo decided to release alternative outfits for the Zero Suit Samus in new Smash Bros. Their official statement on it goes:
Thanks to the determination of her female designer, these Zero Suit outfits got completed in time. From the ending of Metroid: Zero Mission, here’s Samus in shorts!
You can use the same outfit variations in both the 3DS and Wii U versions.
“Thanks to the determination of her female designer”, huh? What abizzarely specificstatement. Reads more like “See, SEE? Women not only love skimpy outfits on female characters, they personally put them in games! She was DETERMINED to do it, even!”
As for anyone who’d gladly claim that those are canon costumes from her earlier games: YES, THEY ARE. You know what exactly they are in canon? LEISURE OUTFITS. Samus wears them after her mission is over. She’s supposed to chill in those shorts, not fight.
Just the same, Zero Suit is basically underwear to her armor and Zero Mission’s whole point was to play Samus at her most vulnerable.
Again, how does any costume other than power armor make sense in the context of brutal tournament that is Smash Bros games?
Guess the developers still like Samus promotion pics being a major candidate for an eschergirls post.
~Ozzie
I love when companies pretend that female developers have total autonomy over projects – it’s not like they answer to managers and executives who hired them to do a specific task.
It’s not like video games is an industry where employment is highly competitive or that employment in game is renown for being highly demanding at the best of times.
Surely it couldn’t be that these female designers were instructed by male managers and that the company expects their female employees to do this kind of work or find work elsewhere!
– wincenworks
This week’s throwback: why shielding a sexist female character design with “a woman was involved in creating it!” doesn’t really hold up, especially when the marketing department is so obviously desperate to highlight that particular fact.
The Game Workshop (not to be confused with Games Workshop) is holding a contest to find new 2D/3D game artists. Cool, right? The only problem is all the judges are male.
This is egregious because hello, it’s 2016.
It’s also particularly egregious because art is one of the few areas in game development where women are fairly well-represented. It’s not like they couldn’t have found female judges.
If you’re so inclined, here are the contest’s partners/sponsors:
Also, note that the link to the contest above is through DoNotLink.
A lot of what keeps the odd double standards and worrying tropes in design is the relative isolation the powers that be keep themselves in – that includes often having decision makers consistently entirely of men.
Thus we’d like to support encouraging The Game Workshop and their sponsors to consider diversifying their judging panel.
– wincenworks
Edit: We’ve been informed that since the post was made originally 2 days ago, female judges joined the panel.
The Game Workshop (not to be confused with Games Workshop) is holding a contest to find new 2D/3D game artists. Cool, right? The only problem is all the judges are male.
This is egregious because hello, it’s 2016.
It’s also particularly egregious because art is one of the few areas in game development where women are fairly well-represented. It’s not like they couldn’t have found female judges.
If you’re so inclined, here are the contest’s partners/sponsors:
Also, note that the link to the contest above is through DoNotLink.
A lot of what keeps the odd double standards and worrying tropes in design is the relative isolation the powers that be keep themselves in – that includes often having decision makers consistently entirely of men.
Thus we’d like to support encouraging The Game Workshop and their sponsors to consider diversifying their judging panel.
– wincenworks
Edit: We’ve been informed that since the post was made originally 2 days ago, female judges joined the panel.
Everytime I go on the train with Evie Jacob is sitting there and says
“is that what your wearing?”
Evie got that sass.
But then, when you are rocking threads like this, it is understandable!
I really love this outfit for Evie as a great example of how you can (particularly with modern animation technology) make fantastic and creative costume designs for female characters (even assassins) without dipping into the bikini armor or other "ridiculously sexualized” bins.
Everytime I go on the train with Evie Jacob is sitting there and says
“is that what your wearing?”
Evie got that sass.
But then, when you are rocking threads like this, it is understandable!
I really love this outfit for Evie as a great example of how you can (particularly with modern animation technology) make fantastic and creative costume designs for female characters (even assassins) without dipping into the bikini armor or other "ridiculously sexualized” bins.
