![]() "If you got stuck in Wizardry level one for example and you don't know how to get to level 10, you would call the Wizardry hotline, and I would say 'hello, Wizardry hotline' and you would say 'I can't get to level 10 on Wizardry,'" Romero explains. Go all the way to the end of the dark area and there's an elevator that'll take you all the way to level four.' So if you got stuck in the game you would call me and I would give you the answers." "And I would say 'ok so you need to find the dark area. ![]() Romero might have started as a FAQ writer at Sir-Tech, but she quickly ascended to doing jobs including "testing, product development, management, and then ultimately looking at third-party titles." That role then developed into writing for games, which then transformed into a design position. "I basically never left, and I'm still yet to really get a proper job," Romero chuckles. Playing games might not be universally seen as a "proper job" (as I'm sure just about everyone in this industry can attest to), but Romero's career doesn't end at game development by any means. Google her right now and you'll see TED talks, you'll see activism with the International Game Developers Association, and you'll see books. One of these books, Sex in Video Games, came about from Romero's research while developing the two Playboy: The Mansion games in the early 2000's. "It comes up periodically," Romero says of the two Playboy games. "People like to bring it up because they're like 'you made a what?'" Romero is an outspoken supporter of diversity around the games industry, but she says that sometimes the games will be brought up in the context of "how can you possibly argue for diversity and representation of women, and also have made that game?", to quote her directly. Romero admits that there are some "right things and wrong things" about that argument.Įmpire of Sin takes the form of a turn-based strategy game. "Women can like sex too, right, it's not always a hetero-normative world," she says. "But then on the flip side I do think that that is using women expressly for the purpose of ornamentation, and if I had to make that game right now, probably not.
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