How women are sexualised in video games, it largely remains unclear whether sexualized video games can have an impact on attitudes toward women. Often game designers change the camera angles to sexualise the female characters body shape and extenuate their walk to show off their purposefully widened hips. They also advertise the game covers with the female characters contorted in ways which can show off their whole body, they do this to appeal to men which entices them to buy the game. Laura was the women who came up with the idea about the male gaze as they were many issues with gender in film and other media. She is a feminist and says that films are made in the view of a heterosexual men trying to sexualise a woman by camera angles, zoom-ins or other strategies. John Berger devised the theory called “Ways of seeing” suggesting that the way woman are seen by men and the way they are taught to see themselves is wrong and creates a bad relationship between the two genders.

The male gaze refers to the way in which women are typically presented in media often through the eyes of the straight male. The women being portrayed are more than often presented as sexual objects for the pleasure of male viewers. For example, in video games, A women’s sexual image is always seen as the most dominant aspect of her character as a pose to her actual purpose in contrast to men who’s bravery and selflessness are always the most important aspect of their character.

Born in 1941, Laura Mulvey is a feminist film maker and theorist from Britain who is commonly known for her work on the ‘Male Gaze’. She wrote the essay in 1975 which highlighted the misogynistic way women are presented throughout media – often through the eyes of the straight male in order to please the straight male.

John Berger, an English art critic born in 1926, was known for his television series and essay on art criticism called ‘Ways of Seeing’ which won the Booker prize in 1972. In the essay, he illustrates the issues with how women are presented in media and how they are overly objectified specifically for the pleasure of the straight man.

My intention of my game I will create a female character who isn’t objectified like most games. It will be set in the jungle where she runs away from a group of criminals .The cover will be a girl dressed with camouflage bottoms and a black top with survival gear. In the background there will add a jungle setting and the main character right in the centre with her pet tiger who she befriends along her travel/hiding. The games aim is survival from running away from the group of men.

The Male Gaze is the idea that men objectify and sexualise women. They depict them in ways that portray them as sexual objects.

Laura Mulvey was a British film theorist who tackled the centrality of the male viewer and his pleasure. She called this ‘The Male Gaze’. She wrote ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ which showed all her findings and opinions.

John Peter Berger was known for his ‘Ways of Seeing’ This highlighted ‘The Male Gaze’.