The feature on female protagonists I wrote for OXM is now online, featuring thoughts from Hideki Kamiya, Valve’s Erik Wolpaw, Crystal Dynamics’ Darrell Gallagher and BioWare’s Mac Walters. In it, I aimed to take the standard wisdom about how to make good female characters from “cover their boobs and make them admirable” to “let female protagonists be people above all.” Okay, so it’s a bit more complex than that, but the industry folk I spoke to for the piece had some pretty interesting thoughts, and I’d be psyched for you to give it a read.
Also online is video of the Jesse Schell talk I told you about recently — have a look if you get a sec. Finally, I also recently published an analysis on the state of games for social good, with a list of the Games For Change Festival winning games.