{"id":46464,"date":"2018-09-10T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/326181"},"modified":"2018-09-10T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:16:00","slug":"video-how-dream-daddy-fostered-player-inclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/10\/video-how-dream-daddy-fostered-player-inclusivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: How Dream Daddy fostered player inclusivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2018 talk, Game Grumps&#8217; Tyler Hutchison discusses the initial goals of <em>Dream Daddy<\/em>, and how it managed to become something that made a whole lot of people from different backgrounds very happy.<\/p>\n<p>Hutchison explains\u00a0how <em>Dream Daddy<\/em> was critically praised for providing players with inclusive representation, examining how certain options were included and the choices and development hours that were required to include them.<\/p>\n<p>With a little love and potentially a small investment of time, he explains how developers\u00a0can\u00a0make their game inclusive and give players more representation in character choices.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an insightful talk that&#8217;s definitely worth watching, so developers\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t miss the\u00a0opportunity to do so now that it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2ovcAh2O--Q\">freely available on the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/contact_us.php\">contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2018 talk, Game Grumps&#8217; Tyler Hutchison discusses the initial goals of Dream Daddy, and how it managed to become something that made a whole lot of people from different backgrounds very happy. Hutchison explains\u00a0how Dream Daddy was critically praised for providing players with inclusive representation, examining how certain options were included and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}