Believe me I tried to convey a shorter question. Here we go. Let's keep it civil of course.
Tetris and Animal Crossing. It is quite known that these 2 franchises,
though not specifically designed for, have helped bring women to gaming. On the contrary, we do have games like Candy Crush that were designed to target a female audience. Bare with me here..
We also have games like Wii Sport and Brain Age that till this day still have elderly people play in retirement home. These games helped expanded gaming to a 65+ causal market.
But today in gaming there is a new "metric", a market that wants diversity, acceptance of sexuality and gender well beyond male and female.
So with that, has there been a game, franchise or series that has appealed to LGBT+ and or Minorities..:
- without being specifically designed for (this new market audience)? or
- ...designed to target these market directly?
And If not, are we as gamers and developers still trying to find and build such a game?
And if all of this is irrelevant, is it even..... Necessary? Though I feel there should be more diversity in gaming narrative, I don't think the gaming industry
needs an "Animal Crossing
for LGBT+" or "Black Tetris" but it sometimes feels like the industry is pursuing that.