Women aren’t generally portrayed very well in games. They’re often hyper-sexualized or hyper-victimized for a number of extremely stupid reasons perpetrated by pretty much everyone: marketing teams, publishers…even devs. So, yeah, that’s bad. But what’s worse is that there are all of these close-minded King Koopas in the world who believe some very harmful things about a woman’s place in society. This is really bad. These people tend to be very vocal and often spit fire at those who would challenge their perspectives. Not cool.

So a couple of weeks ago @iamagamer_ca held a game jam based thematically around strong female protagonists, and Scott and I immediately knew we wanted to take part, because we believe women aren’t being fairly portrayed in games, and gender stereotypes are stupid and should be challenged.