{"id":1114,"date":"2015-05-26T10:53:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2015-05-26T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:53:12","slug":"shameless-not-self-promotion-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/05\/26\/shameless-not-self-promotion-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameless (not-self) Promotion: Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"

So for those of you–if there are any–who read regularly, I’m taking advantage of this blog to promote the Kickstarter campaign for a new game being developed by a team of former Irrational Games developers (one of whom I happened to marry). The game is entitled Perception<\/em><\/a>, and I like it for a variety of reasons unrelated to the fact that it is being worked-on by a person I live with.<\/p>\n

First, Perception<\/em> has a female protagonist (Cassie). First-person perspective means that her attractiveness, costume, and physique are irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Also, she’s blind. Yes, the game is played first-person perspective with a blind protagonist. Which is also pretty damn cool. You should check out the trailer to see how that works. (Also, yet another reason why her physical attractiveness is irrelevant.)<\/p>\n

Third, it’s not a shooter. It’s a survival-horror game in which the player does not shoot things–instead, Cassie uses her cane to sense the objects around her–and interacts with them based on sound and memory.<\/p>\n

In other words, it’s a game featuring a differently-abled female protagonist of undetermined race (probably white, let’s be honest, but we can’t see her and SHE can’t see her) who isn’t engaged in shooting things and who is independent enough to be exploring a house on her own even though she’s blind.<\/p>\n

Yes, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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