(vent) IM SO TIRED OF GAME DEV

I’m in game making club in college 😭 and it’s way to exhausting, especially as a nonbinary person. Any time you try to add a character that is not cis, or not straight, or not white, there is soooooo much pushback.

I made a nonbinary character, and pronounced such to the writers so they were aware the character would go by they/them. I THOUGHT This was no big deal. How fucking stupid I was. The writer for this character said he want the character to be a guy he/him and asked if we could come to a negotiation. I said, as the artist for the character I made them nonbinary before any writing came out (club is kinda first one who gets to it kinda deal) I also said I changed nothing else and he could do anything he wanted with the writing 🙂. I even added some of his writing elements to the character to go hand an hand with his writing! Glasses, mischievous face, etc.

He never replies. OKAY. Months role by… I find out by looking in the files he sent for the character that he CHANGED IT. No long he/him, and not even they/them like I told him the character was. He changed it to she/her….

I just don’t understand. The club is run by lgbt people!! Why is he opposed to the character being something different???? What’s wrong with being nonbinary 😔 I just feel so upset by this and my feelings are hurt, especially because I thought that club would be safe with the lgbt leadership .

Just venting 😞😞 I’m already reaching out to others to fix this and I plan on confronting him when I have the lines with pronouns fixed. I’m both pissed and sad. I guess I didn’t realize someone would try to be so mean.