This goes with what I said earlier, every gamedev community (outside of /agdg/ threads) is pozzed. You will be ostracized unless you fully subscribe to SJW ideology. It's why even in the indie scene, it's hard to find non-pozzed game developers. You even have to request an account (while providing links to other sites and profiles for manual approval) just to be on this instance.
If I get the time, money, and resources, I would love to create a forum, fedi instance, XMPP/Matrix server, etc for the few gamedevs that don't subscribe to this cancer. I don't know how many people would use it though.
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@xianc78 if it's something you're serious about, I'd be down to talk about it and try to help contribute. I think a big thing would be focusing on the games over anything else. It irks me when forums or discord servers have a politics section because it just causes problems where people get vitriolic and/or it becomes an echo chamber that permeates to the rest of the community that's there.
@beardalaxy I'm not doing it anytime soon. I got too much going on. I agree we should be focusing on games more than anything else. I feel like the "anti-sjw" gamedev community focuses more time on obsessing over how SJWs ruin everything than actually making good games. I'm kind of guilty of that as well.
@xianc78 yeah it gets combative and extreme, which makes the other side more combative and extreme. Nobody wants to play a game that exists solely to shit on people and that's something I think the right tends to fuck up on. The politically correct still make amazing games, they just have weird trans propaganda in them and shit like a character being non-binary being listed in their bio and they just exist to be a token of inclusivity or something.
Games made by explicitly right wing people just tend to be way too overbearing and they feel like ass to actually play. It ends up just being kind of tacky.
@beardalaxy I was actually talking about people obsessing over current events instead of making their game. I probably could've gotten a lot more done I wasn't obsessing over it non-stop back in 2016-2019. I feel like it's the same way with other developers.
But yeah. Shock value games are only fun for like 10 minutes.
@xianc78 oh yeah that's a definite.
I don't speak for everyone, but I think the majority of people complaining about woke shit in games don't really want games that combat the woke shit, they want games that just don't have the woke shit in it.
Based devs helps too, though, when stacked on a game that's just a game. Take the recent interview with FFXVI's director or whatever, talking about how the are pretty much going to only be white people in the game because it is representative of the region the game takes place in. That's an answer that infuriates the people who would be asking that question, but we like to hear that because it means the focus isn't on pandering, it's about the actual game.
Maybe that's a bad example because the current state of Square Enix dictates there will probably be something woke in the game anyway, but you get what I'm going for I'm sure.
@beardalaxy I'm more surprise that there is even a FFXVI in the works. I thought FFXV flopped so hard that it killed the franchise. I never got into the Final Fantasy series or anything related to Square Enix, so I'm mostly out of the loop on that one. I really do hate that even the Japanese game studios are becoming woke now.
The all white cast reminds me of this Fallout 4 mod that I've heard about which replaces all the non-white characters with white ones. The creator's justification was that there probably wouldn't have been a civil rights movement in the Fallout timeline, so Boston would probably be majority white, even more so after the nuclear war. Though to me, there is nothing that says that there wouldn't have been a civil rights movement in the Fallout timeline, but whatever.
However, that's another problem I have which is that people are combating wokeness with mods which I feel is a band-aid solution. Unless you pirate the game, you are still giving money to the game's creators and a mod just changes the experience to those who have that mod installed.
But what I was talking about earlier about focusing on getting stuff done as opposed to obsessing over current events, I think it's part of the issue with YandereDev. I don't know the full story. I watched some documentary about him a while back and forgot a lot of it. He probably spent more time obsessing over the drama regarding his game compared to actually working on it. I don't know how much was related to identity politics but he always asserted his promise of being an "anti-sjw gamedev" while not getting the game done.
@xianc78 ffxv did pretty well, I thought. It kept getting updates for a while and they had a lot of cross promotion. If I remember right, there was something about the pre-orders not being very good. I'm interested in 16 but I'll have to wait for it to come out and see what others think.