The Prince's Knight

Overview:

In The Prince's Knight you take a the role of a female knight who has to climb to the top of the dungeon like tower to save the prince from the evil slime monsters. This game is based around the idea of subverting tropes, specially gender tropes in media, and focuses around the ideas presented in Jeffery A. Brown's quote, “We teach girls that they should strive to be sexually attractive, we depict girls in the media as sexual spectacles, and we infantilize adult women.”  (2015, p. 207)

We wanted to create a game where the player would take on the role of a strong female heroine, who is the opposite of how most other female characters in video games are portrayed, Thus we created a character who is not at all sexualised and is strong and passionate.  We also wanted to have a depiction of a male character who takes on the "princess" type role, to show that not all male characters have to be strong macho type men. 

References:

Brown, J.A. (2015). Beyond Bombshells The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.

Team Members:

Jessica Bush - Character/Enemy Designer and Animator

James Gareski - Level Designer

Vincent Angeles - Games Programmer

Michael Redondo - Audio