{"id":65,"date":"2022-12-07T07:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/webcty\/?p=65"},"modified":"2022-12-07T07:35:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:35:26","slug":"timi-montreals-bonnie-jean-mah-on-reflecting-the-world-around-us-creating-diverse-characters-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/timi-montreals-bonnie-jean-mah-on-reflecting-the-world-around-us-creating-diverse-characters-in-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"TiMi Montr\u00e9al\u2019s Bonnie Jean Mah on Reflecting the World Around Us: Creating Diverse Characters in Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">As Narrative Director at TiMi Montr\u00e9al, I\u2019m helping our team create the vision for a new fictional world that we\u2019re building for our game. TiMi Studio Group has opened three North American studios, including our growing team. We\u2019re passionate about improving diversity among our team and improving representation within the games we make<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Character creation is top of mind for our team right now because we are in the early stages of developing a completely original, AAA , open-world role-playing game (RPG). When we think about creating an immersive experience, having believable characters helps ground our players in the world and the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Let\u2019s start with the question of why it\u2019s important to increase diversity in our games. The media site\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><span lang=\"EN-CA\">DiamondLobby<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">analyzed 100 top games released over the past five years that had pre-set or authored characters.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">They found that\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">more than\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">79 percent of the main protagonists in those games were male, while more than 54 percent were Caucasian. Females accounted for less than 21 percent of main characters and just 8.3 percent were females of other ethnicities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Narrative Director at TiMi Montr\u00e9al, I\u2019m helping our team create the vision for a new fictional world that we\u2019re building for our game. TiMi Studio Group has opened three North American studios, including our growing team. We\u2019re passionate about improving diversity among our team and improving representation within the games we make.\u00a0 Character creation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/store1.k-tech-services.com\/webcty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}