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Naughty Dog Axed Sexist Focus Tester For Outburst
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An unnamed focus tester, working at Californian studio Naughty Dog during the development of Uncharted 4, was reportedly asked to leave following what was deemed by the company as sexist objections towards the game's portrayal of women.
Neil Druckmann, creative director at Naughty Dog, describes witnessing several "sexist focus testers" at the studio, one of which was apparently so affected by some of the story that it was agreed he should leave.
In an interview with Rolling Stone's newly-launched gaming site Glixel, Druckmann was asked about how his work has been influenced by the critic Anita Sarkeesian, who has produced numerous videos on the subject of sexism in games.
Druckmann said he tries to be open-minded about the studio's ideas on introducing more female characters in its games.
"When I'm introducing and describing a new character to our lead character concept artist, constantly she will ask, 'What if it was a girl?' And I'm like, oh, I didn't think about that. Let me think, does that affect or change anything? No? Cool, that's different. Yeah, let's do it."
Some focus testers had issues with both scenes, according to Druckmann
"To the point where we had to ask one guy to leave. In his core, it just affected him. He was cursing, 'not you, too, Naughty Dog! Goddammit. I guess I'm done with Uncharted,
if you guys ever make another one, with his daughter.
This ****ing ********.' And I was like, Wow, why does that matter?"
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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/unc.../1100-6440081/
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