Diversity Space Tool was developed by King, one of the three main companies at Activision Blizzard King. This Candy Crush creator has been working on
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As the studio pointed out it was designed for developers to be inspired to think outside of the box, and remove unconscious bias and exclusion in the development of characters for games.
"As an outcome, we hope we can create more characters that break out of the norm as well as better reflect women, non-binary as well as other minorities under-represented in the industry," King globalization project manager Jacqueline Chomatas said in a statement.
While Activision Blizzard eventually edited the blog post, the original version said that the Diversity Space Tool had been evaluated with the help of Call of Duty: Vanguard developers, as well as The Overwatch 2 team, who were able to "experiment with the tool and also to share their initial impressions"So you can see how Diversity Space Tool works:
The software evaluates various aspects like age, cultural, race, body type gender, socioeconomic background;The "norm" is rated as 0 with additional numbers indicating the divergence from this "norm";The software also considers other aspects like the role of gameplay in game characters (tank the tank, damage dealer support, etc. );
So characters get additional scores every time they deviate from the "norm," which is generally a white, transgender straight man.According to the original article, Activision Blizzard planned to
D2R Items for sale launch it's Diversity Space Tool this summer. The ultimate goal was to offer it to other game development companies.How did the internet respond upon the release?
