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Star Stable Online Celebrates (?) Pride Month, Promises Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

UPDATE: There’s been a back and forth about the inclusion of the explicitly supportive paragraph.

Horse Games and Gender – How Video Games often fail to combine Quality and Femininity

There has been a significant amount of progress in recent years in how female characters are included and designed.

What remains is an imbalance between how our industry tackles subject matters and activities that have a gendered connotation, which is a significant factor in the utter scarcity of well-made games about horses.

Horse Isle 3, War Crimes and LGBTQ+ Visibility – A case study in how NOT to approach Community Management

When I published my article about Horse Isle 3’s development in December, I was certain I was done writing about this game for a while. After all, I had made my peace with the fact that the game is not for me and had put my most urgent criticisms into words.

And then, the Gulag incident happened. Yes, bear with me here.