Independent publisher Wales Interactive has withdrawn the ad for Gamer Girl, an interactive FMV title that focuses on a fictional streamer of women’s games.
Announced last week, the game puts players in the role of a chat moderator trying to keep order in the chat sequence of ‘Abicake99’, the main character. They also offer advice on how to handle things when faced with a threat from an anonymous predator.
The Wales Interactive trailer and ad tweet sparked complaints from other streamers and abuse victims. PC Gamer reports that the publisher attempted to address the concerns with a statement via Twitter, but has since chosen to remove all ad materials.
The game section of the Wales interactive website is currently inactive, the trailer has been removed from its channel, although XboxViewTV is still hosting it at the time of writing, and PC Gamer reports that even the press kit has been removed from Google. Drive.
Neither Wales Interactive nor developer FMV Future appear to have publicly announced this removal. However, Wales Interactive’s original statement still stands.
“Gamer Girl is about the impact that user feedback and actions have on a streamer’s mental health and well-being,” the editor tweeted. “The reason FMV Future created the game was to raise the issue of the toxic environment that can often appear online behind the anonymity of a username.”
The publisher described the game as “a powerful story of a female streamer who … fights trolls and Expires the toxic characters in their sequence. “
Wales Interactive emphasized that the game is actually co-written by lead actress Alexandra Burton, who improvised the script. This point was reiterated in response to several tweets from other users who speculate that Gamer Girl is an exclusively male production.
The firm also emphasized that FMV Future spent four years researching the Gamer Girl content, including interviews with “dozens of female streamers … most of whom have experienced abuse of various kinds online.”
Some of these interviews are planned to be shared in-game.
“Online abuse is real and it still happens every day,” the editor concluded. “Gamer Girl seeks to raise awareness on this issue.”
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