The British Academy Film Awards began including video games in their ceremonies, but recently they decided to change their rules for the 2021 entry rules to make sure that the only games that get nominated and/or win are those pushing literal Social Justice Warrior propaganda.
According to a post from LouBagger on KotakuInAction 2, the reason for this change comes amid the 2020 nominations that had too many straight whites featured in the games, as reported by Variety. To “fix” (read: undermine) the amount of quality-made games starring straight whites (especially males), the BAFTA committee came up with a new set of rules to ensure that only games promoting the SJW agenda will be eligible to win.
This was picked up by Twitter userr Procurator_V on July 12th, 2020.
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If you were curious about what was in the PDF, there’s a link to the new 2021 ruleset outlined over on the BAFTA website.
YouTuber Upper Echelon Games also did a video about the new rule change, which you can check out below.
If you look over the criteria as to what games are eligible based on “representation” and “diversity”, you’ll see that there’s going to be a huge selection of titles and genres that will no longer be eligible to win a BAFTA.
They outline in the description…
“Detail how thevideo game will address under-representation in the lead and secondary characters, playable character rosters, casting choices, the main and secondary storylines, themes and narratives and where the gameis set. Identify where there are unfamiliar characters or themes and narratives that are not frequently portrayed in games or are shown from a new perspective. Describe where there are complex and non-stereotypical representations of charactersor cultures who are normally relegated to two-dimensional roles. Detail the perspective of the narrative or theme of the gameand how this affects the way in which charactersor culturesare portrayed.”
This then leads to the checkboxes of how you can achieve a nomination for non-narrative games. Basically you have to have at least one lead character who identifies as a person from an “under-represented group(s)”.
Non-narrative games with an ensemble also must include: 50-50 gender balance, 20% of the cast must belong to an under-represented ethnic group, 10% must be LGBTQIA+, 7% must be deaf or disabled, and a “significant” portion must be from a lower socioeconomic background or contain “regional diversity”.
In other words, don’t expect Super Mario or many other Nintendo games to win an award unless they shoehorn in some unnecessary degeneracy to corrupt the minds of kids.
For games with NPCs, the non-playable characters either in narrative or non-narrative games must include: 50-50 gender balance, 20% of the characters must be from an under-represented ethnic group, 10% must be LGBTQIA+, and 7% must be deaf or disabled.
They go on to explain…
“You should explain wherethere are characters that are not frequently portrayed on screen and/orhow the game isoffering non-stereotypical representation.In addition, for narrativegames, you should indicate these characters’ roles in the story.”
This means that games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance would be made ineligible, along with indie titles like The End of the Sun, which is themed around a heterosexual Slavic couple. Historical period piece games such as Conscript, which is set during World War I France, or games like The Bunker would also be ineligible since they don’t fit the criteria.
Worse yet is that they wouldn’t be judged based on the quality of their narrative or lack thereof, but whether or not they fit BAFTA’s “diversity” checklist.
But if you think that’s bad, they go on to demand that not only must your game be “diverse”, but your development team must also be “diverse”.
The document explains…
“Detail how the video gamewill address under-representation in its creative leadershipand/ordevelopment team. Identify the roles filled by people from an under-represented group, and the under-represented group they are from. Where short-listed or approached people are from under-represented groups, you can also detail these. If there is more than one person in any role, you may describe how multiple underrepresented individuals are being employed in this role.”
As Upper Echelon Games pointed out, BAFTA isn’t an authority on game design, but once you have award outfits like BAFTA forcing developers to adopt Left-wing propaganda in order to be considered for nomination, then you’ll start seeing various AAA studios kowtowing even more in order to make the cut.
Things will really get bad once other industry awards start adopting similar criteria for nominations, such as D.I.C.E., or The Game Awards. There’s going to be the slippery slope where both indie and major game productions will start subverting their own development standards for creativity in order to be included in the nominations.
In essence, you can kiss any non-pozzed games goodbye once this becomes the industry standard for awards.
(Thanks for the news tip KotakuInAction2)
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