Optimism Art Sprint 6

Spring Break, a time to relax and a time to get stuff done. That is if everything goes according to plan. While the plan was to get a major chunk of work done over the break things did not quite work out as intended. I managed to get the environments for level 1 and 2 done but that was as far as I got. I never found the time to look over the default character animations so nothing got done as far as that is concerned. At least we have environments for two of the three levels now. I am waiting on Cam to tell me if anything needs to be changed with those two environments but for the time being I will just guess that there is nothing wrong with them.

Before break we were asked about the ethics in media and the ethics in our projects. While I believe that certain ethical issues should be considered when making media I do not believe all of them need to be the main focus of a creator’s decisions. If creator’s tried to address all ethical concerns in every project they worked on nothing would ever get completed. There is no way to make every single person happy so somethings need to be ignored or bypassed. In this project, Optimism, ethical concerns were not really considered during development. Yes we have questioned some of our decisions and altered some concepts in response but we are not allowing it to completely control our decisions. We have done some things like made an equal number of female and male characters in the game. We have also tried to avoid stereotypes, though some were just fitting. For example one of the first female characters you meet is a mother but we by no means are saying that all females should be at home taking care of the children. Through the character’s actions in the game we actually break the stereotype while starting out using it. All-in-all I think there is a good balance between ethical concerns addressed and ethical concerns bypassed.