As a male author, is writing about a female protagonist gay and retarded?

I have a draft for a videogame about a woman who suffers from childhood sexual abuse, silent hill / fantasyland type exploration game where the more you play it would peel back the truth and erase the original fake narrative that the game wanted you to believe, that it was just a wholesome game about a girl exploring space, in actuality its a game about a 23 year old woman trapped inside of her 16 year old self, refusing to acknowledge the pain and eventually be forced to come to terms with it. Perhaps it's indicitive of her mental state during therapy or of someone with stockholm syndrome. Essentially, a psychological horror game like Doki Doki. I stopped working on the idea because I thought it might be insensitive of me to make it and not ask female sexual assault survivors or victims of rape for any input, as faggoty and as libtardy as that sounds, I don't want to make a game that feels like it doesn't address the issue as much as it needs to or is far too surface level or doesn't treat the main character well and perhaps the topic of mental age regression and shit isn't a good thing to base a story on, but I suppose a tldr is that I felt like it would just be too risky and people might not understand the message. I suppose there isn't a moral to it, but it just explores an idea and bases a game around it and that was good enough for me at the time.

Anyways, that draft helped me inspire something similar which I'm working on now (kind of, but not really, I recently 3D modeled a single character for it AND IT HAS FULLY MODELED HANDS HOLY SHIT!!!) which hopefully will be a game about characters who have done morally grey things in life, coming to terms with trauma and their actions that got them to where they currently are, this time with an adult male main character who is a father and 36 years old and also a Christian. These characters want to go to heaven, but they can't, and they're not in hell either, they're stuck somewhere in between, like purgatory, but not really. The main character lost his daughter, she was killed, slowly he started to get more and more angry, he wanted answers and he found them, and when he found them, he took matters into his own hands. After he tragically ends it all, he finds himself in "Redemption", a dimension of creatures that are too twisted for heaven but too innocent for hell. There are many characters like him in this dimension who all need help with their problems and this is how he will redeem himself, by talking to them and helping them with their issues and exploring Redemption, solving puzzles, he'll slowly progress through the dimension to solve his main problem. Is he successful? Does he get to go to heaven? Well, we don't know actually, his ending is rather bittersweet.

I'm basically obsessed with the idea of making an abstract exploration game with a story, like Firewatch but more free-roam, like B3313 or Yume Nikki. Something that's serious but disturbing and also creepy but light hearted enough that you could get transported into a candyland world or a sunny sky world and have that feel weird somehow. I've been feeling like to make a good game recently, you need to tell a good story, and do so in a way that's interesting. I used to be obsessed with gameplay and lack there of a story, but now I feel like games are more like an artform to me or interactive movies, which is why I've come to love The Stanley Parable, Life is Strange, TellTale games, etc.
 
Soygoy said:
have a draft for a videogame about a woman who suffers from childhood sexual abuse, silent hill / fantasyland type exploration game where the more you play it would peel back the truth and erase the original fake narrative that the game wanted you to believe, that it was just a wholesome game about a girl exploring space, in actuality its a game about a 23 year old woman trapped inside of her 16 year old self, refusing to acknowledge the pain and eventually be forced to come to terms with it.
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>oh my soygoy this is JUST LIKE Lisa: The First
 
Sometimes I get really good ideas I can write down and then just have no fucking clue how I'm supposed to do it and in what order I do it in. They say stop planning shit and just do it but it feels like the planning stage has to be a while before I can actually do the thing so I can actually make the characters and flesh them out and shit, but man actually planning it takes forever, it's this horrible cycle of making ideas that are too ambitious that I can't get them off of the ground and it happens to everything. I even had an idea for a simple RPG and that just turned into like fucking Persona but medieval and with dungeons and shit.

One thing I really wanna do is make something really really simple just so I can prove that I can actually finish things and make stuff with SOVL but I guess the most simplest of ideas to me will take 1 year minimum GEG. And I'm not joking, the simplest game I've ever made took about an entire year to make and it's so embarassing because I could probably rewrite the entire thing in like a week.
 
If you're not going to use any kind of visual medium then I guess it's mostly irrelevant whether your protagonist is a man or a woman given the context. Internet shit is confusing to everyone all the same if they're as disconnected from it as people from rural villages usually are.
 
mischizo said:
In this strange new reality, she meets it's eccentric and diverse netizens and communities.
With their customs and cultures being completely alien to her, she quickly realizes this world isn't as friendly as those from her dreams and tries to escape back to real life.
However, the deeper she enters the Net, the more she becomes intertwined with it, doubting if reality is worth returning to...
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I was thinking about this just now
Isn't this just The Amazing Digital Circus?
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mischizo said:
I posted about it already, but I want to write a story that explores internets cultures and how fucked up it sometimes is. I want the main protagonist to be completely alien to internet and it's culture, that's why he's from a future where modern society is replaced with a medieval-tier one. That's also why I thought making the protagonist female would make it more alien, since internet (especially the non-surface net) is male dominated, also there would be this contrast of a pure village girl being thrown in to the fucked up world of internet.
Here's a summary of the story I've written so far:
In the far future, centuries after modern civilization has collapsed, a girl from rural village starts having vivid dreams of fascinating worlds.
Enamoured and obsessed by these dreams, she loses touch with those close to her. Until one day, the dreams stop.
Being estranged from the people from her village, she wants to escape back to those fascinating worlds again.
Guided by a feeling from her last dream, she leaves her village, finding an ancient bunker filled with enigmatic circuitry and machines.
Exhausted, she falls asleep in the compound, unknowingly transferring her consciousness to a virtual reality network.
In this strange new reality, she meets it's eccentric and diverse netizens and communities.
With their customs and cultures being completely alien to her, she quickly realizes this world isn't as friendly as those from her dreams and tries to escape back to real life.
However, the deeper she enters the Net, the more she becomes intertwined with it, doubting if reality is worth returning to...
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Ohionuke gl tho
 
Ree Vannin said:
Why bother writing a “realistic” female character? Just write the character who best fulfills their function in the story.
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TRVTHNVKE
make a character first then give a shit about whether said character should be female or not
 
mischizo said:
especially if I barely interact with women, I don't think I can write a "realistic" female character
also thinking about it more, it just sounds weird
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I don't believe you are writing a book, prove it. Also having a female lead is probably gay, but if you are a good enough writer, you can make it not gay.
 
UltraSoyLord said:
I don't believe you are writing a book, prove it. Also having a female lead is probably gay, but if you are a good enough writer, you can make it not gay.
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coal opinion and variant:unknown, yep it's brim
 
Swede said:
coal opinion
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95% of the time a man writes a story with a female as its main character, they self-insert like a tranny. Outside of truly skilled authors, it turns out gay.
Swede said:
variant:unknown
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>shemmy pedo squirreljak pfp
Geg, shotjak is a thinking soyteen's jak. Only masters and scholars of the jakking arts appreciate it.
 
I don't think it's gay but writing women is soy because talking to women is soy
 
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