Gender, why I am allowing the option to be male in my magical girl RPG.
Because I haven’t offended enough people today.
Originally, I intended for my game to be centered around magical girls.
The idea of a magical girl game is basically putting the magical girl concept from anime such as Madoka Magica, and applying it into a video game. This is when normal middle/high-school girls during the day are normal students but at “night” or some other non-school time they transform into “magical girls” who fight some sort of evil.
So it would be expected in a “magical girl” RPG game, to be playing as a bunch of girls, so why am I choosing to let you choose to be a boy in a “magical girl” game?
Let’s first go into what type of game I personally want to make. The type of game I am wanting to make has 2 basic components.
1-Magical Girl
2-Roleplaying
RPG stands for role playing game. You make your own choices and the experience is tailored to you. Games like Final Fantasy 3, South Park Stick of Truth, Skyrim, let you choose your classes/path, and depending on the game, the clothing as well.
While South Park limits you to playing a canon male gender, but it gives you clothing and hair options throughout the game for those who want to look like a girl. Final Fantasy 3 allows you to choose what classes you are, which directly affects the player’s appearance. Skryim is the king of customizability, clothes, gender, race, EVERYTHING is an option in this world. It even goes as far as when it comes to marriage, they didn’t bother limiting the male options for men and female by women, you can marry regardless of gender.
And no… I did not play the companion route for several hours so I could gay-marry Farkas. Don’t be silly.
The RPGs I like the most have options. I like Persona 3, but it peeves me that you can only date the girls. In Persona 4 there is a openly gay character who you STILL can’t even date. You only get to date the girls. What about the gay players? And as for the PSP version which let’s you be a girl, what about the lesbians? Obviously they are not required to allow same sex dating, it’s just my personal preference. Maybe in the future I will go further in why I wish Persona had more dating options, and my argument for that.
Traditionally, you would expect a magical girl RPG to be full of playable women for the most part. But honestly, I HATE the idea of limiting people. I am trying to make a story about a cute couple fighting for the right to live, but I can easily keep the story portion with the option of extra options for gender.
In case you don’t know, I originally intended for there to be a lead female middle-schooler, and a “implied love interest” whom she was already great friends/morethanfriends with. But what about girls who want to date a guy? The guys who want to be included in this game? The guys who want to be gay themselves? I am not required to appeal to those different sexual and gender backgrounds, but I want to do that. I want at least these options because it’s a role playing game.
1 Option of deciding lead gender.
2 Option of deciding lead love interest.
3 if I have enough funds, allow option of genderbending everyone.
RPGs should have OPTIONS in my opinion, so in this one I will make it have those bare options.
Two weeks back or so, I discussed with viewers on a livestream of a dlc option where everyone is genderbended. Instead of “magical girls” they are “magical boys”. At this point gender kinda becomes irrelevant, because both genders are “magical”. This game is becoming more of a “magical” game.
My viewers all screamed(in a good way) at this idea “dlc where everyone is genderbended, but the outfits are exactly the same”. My first thought was to make genderbending an option, the only difference is gender, the clothes don’t change.
Want to be a boy? Sure. You still have to wear a dress though when you are in your magic form, this is a “magical girl” game after all. And I personally feel that if I removed the dresses it wouldn’t make the genders equal. Don’t boys deserve to wear dresses in a magical girl RPG?
I don’t think anyone(with decent common sense) is going to mind terribly about this, because to the very core this is a magical girl game. So in my game if you choose to be a boy, you will dress like a normal boy during normal times, but during fighting portions you are in a girly magical form. The dialogue will be different based on the gender, and at certain points comments will be made regarding what they are wearing.
However my artist Reddomi said she found the idea very awkward, having boys in heels and dresses. She says she is okay with drawing it, and ultimately it’s my decision because it’s my game, she said. What do you think? Do you hate the idea of having the male options be in girly outfits during combat parts of game? Give your opinion in the poll at bottom
To be clear, this isn’t to make comments at my artist. This is merely here to show that not everyone would be thrilled at this idea. She is amazing and open minded. In my previous project she helped me design a female to male transgender character to look male but have body of female. So I swear to Madoka if I hear of someone throwing shit comments/messages at her you will hear it from me.
Regardless, I intend to have a dlc option in the full game that allows you to genderbend all the main characters who you can play as or fight with. The bosses whom are not monsters will probably still have same gender. This dlc option will only be available after the full original game is released. In the original game you will be able to be male and date a male, so don’t worry. I just can’t afford to focus too much on dlc until after the game is done.
But why does it have to cost money???
I am glad no one asked. I have to have Reddomi draw out several different outfits depending on the class you are in. I also need a sprite artist to redesign the sprites to be male. Just because they are having to only change anatomy, doesn’t mean it won’t be tedious as fuck for the artists.
For the demo alone, there has to be 4 outfits per the four main girls whom classes you can evolve. Four different sprites. Four different busts, battle poses, transition…
When you make a male version for each, it can raise the prices by a large amount, so in the demo you can only make the main girl and main love interest male. In the full game I am not making the genderbend for full party free because of how much it costs. The only scenario in which it may be free is if on Kickstarter I got X amount past the original goal.
Apparently putting links in a post prevents it from being searchable? (Thanks tumblr) so just tell me what you think via reblog or reply or message since it’d prevent my post from getting out there if I put a poll link.
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At first I thought this was saying something negative about straight Asian boys and then I realized OP was claiming Asian boys apparently cannot be straight.
Which honestly sounds like something a creepy yaoi fangirl would say.
I’m not talking about fanfictions or AU’s based off of a video game/comic/TV series, I’m talking about a story with a world and characters that are YOURS and YOURS alone.
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