FOX NEWS on MASS EFFECT Sex Debate ((Part 2, about Game Industry))
So if you thought I didn’t mention about this video’s effect on games because I forgot, you where wrong. I wanted to make this a new post so I could separate the comments, if I get any.
It’s not the first time that this kind of one-sided news and “documentaries” are shown in channels like Fox and MTV. And sadly they are shown in some of the most viewed channels, and as everyone who has anything to do with any kind of Media related industry (Design, Fashion, Game Development, TV, Radio, Films, etc…) knows, most TV watchers believe everything they see. Making a great manipulation weapon out of this media.
Not only as Game Developers, but as Modern Artists, Designers of any kind and else, we need to be aware of this messages our audience is constantly receiving. If we are to work for the masses, for any specific audience, we must always analyze the information they are mostly receiving from the media.
Even when I’m always one of the first in line to raise up my voice against non-reasonable taboos and old rules of the same kind, I think we need to pay attention to this kind of comments. Even when we think it’s a small percentage of the population who thinks like that, we must remember this debate (for example) was so big that it came to my hands. And I’m Mexican.
I’m not saying we must summit under what TV wants us to think and do. But in order to have better chances on succeeding, we must know what they are saying, and what they are going to say about our project, whatever it is about. We need to be one or two steps above their movements, I don’t think just ignoring this comments will do any good. At least not if we want to evolve and make people wake up to this evolving world.
As a conclusion I’d like to re-state that this is not an invitation to obey what mass media says. But to doubt it, research, think and come up with our own thoughts, and imprint them in whatever we do. That’s what this is all about, from my perspective.
Resist, Exist, Imagine, Create, Attack and Survive.
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