Yuki’s Tale: duas categorias possíveis para questionar a masculinidade hegemônica em um jogo adulto masculino gay

Abstract

Narrator: This article presents a practical example of two guide categories used in the development of a commercial entertainment game that questions the male hegemonic (CONNELL and MESSERSCHMIDT, 2013) found in gay men's gaming market. Moreover, it also brings feedback produced by players that endorse the need for game developers to use their creativity to seek, perhaps, social changes through the discourses represented in their games. Motivated by the desire to reach the people who develop these cultural artifacts, especially students, we want to turn this work into a podcast, digital media that can complement college education. (SOARES, MIRANDA e SMANIOTTO, 2018) Because it is spoken media, we maintain this aspect in text writing. Furthermore, by bringing three entities with different personalities into the conversation there will be a variation in the tone of their lines and their interests. The Knowledge Entity (C) represents the academic perspective, the Time Entity (T) is a “bridge” to connect the academy to game production, and the Mind Entity (M) symbolizes the person who develops games. ------------ Turning on microphones. 3, 2.1 … Recording! ------------ T: Welcome to Pontes, the podcast that brings the reality of game developers to the academic world. What do we have for today, Knowledge? C: In today's episode, we will invite Mind, responsible for developing games for the gay male adult audience. She will tell us her story about how the male protagonists of her childhood did not represent her as a player and this led her years later to the game development universe. Besides, she will present her research process on Steam in search of a market opportunity and how, during this process, she found a single type of gay man in “yaoi”, boy's love and “bara” games. Then, she will explain the two categories she created to conceive a universe perhaps capable of questioning concepts about gender, in a certain way, crystallized by players. To guide our program, we will check games as a mode of action/representation, that is, as a discourse (PIEVE and RIBEIRO, 2018) and the notion of gender as a product and as a process of its representation. (LAURETIS, 1987) By the end of our discussion, our guest will share some public feedback regarding the resulting provocations from the use of her guiding categories. T: Shall we start?.