New skateboarding game OlliOlli World will let queer players be their authentic selves

OlliOlli World will function a various character creator so “you can also make you, whoever you might be”.

The skateboarding recreation was introduced on the Nintendo Indie World Showcase again in April and would be the newest within the OlliOlli collection.

World will function a brand new hand-drawn artwork type and a give attention to storytelling.

With that artwork type comes a possibility to incorporate a personality creator too.

John Ribbins, inventive director on the sport, spoke with Eurogamer and defined the way it’s one thing the Roll7 group had wished to implement for the reason that first recreation.

“One of many key pillars of OlliOlli World is being welcoming,” says Ribbins. “We wish the sport to really feel welcoming to a bigger variety of gamers – and the fact is, within the earlier two video games you simply performed a white dude with no face by any means. We thought it will be cool if you can also make you, whoever you might be.”

There will likely be over 1,000 completely different objects with which to customize your character within the recreation, collected by means of finishing challenges. Meaning there are numerous variations to make sure your character is private to you.

Skateboarding has definitely turn out to be a way more numerous sport since its edgy 90s days of the Tony Hawk video video games – significantly with the LGBT+ neighborhood.

Says Ribbins: “However I additionally suppose skateboarding has turn out to be far more pleasant, incorporating LGBTQ communities as properly – Vans did a current collaboration with Cher Strauberry, who’s a trans lady, and there’s Leo Baker who’s non-binary, they began an organization referred to as Glue and many of the riders on which are LGBTQ in some flavour. And that’s rather more of part of skateboarding now.

“In OlliOlli World you’ll be able to costume nonetheless the heck you need, and be regardless of the heck you need. We wished to have the ability to be like, what should you watch that clip of Nora Vasconcellos or Jennifer Charlene skating in a bowl in a full-on ball robe? You are able to do that in OlliOlli World, as a result of that’s type of rad too.”

OlliOlli World is due out later this yr throughout PlayStation, Xbox, Swap and PC.

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