Gender and pronouns (also for non-binary) (MV)

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INTRO

When you want the player to choose which character they play, you can easily just switch out images and names, or even the whole main character. However, If you want to have dialogue about the main character, this might cause an issue. You have to avoid words like "Him/Her" "His/Her" and  "He/She". Or you'd have to rewrite all dialogue for males and females.

I got the solution for that. And it works for MZ too!!

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STEPS

• Set up a gender
  
• Preparing pronouns
  
• Writing dialogue
  

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1. Set up a gender

First you need to make a scene, where the character is introduced. Probably at the very start of your game.

In this scene, before your character is named or shown for the first time, you ask the player fir their desired gender. Here you set up the images and the name of the main characters. Here you also puts a gender in a variable of your choice. I use var 31 in this example. 0 = male, 1 = female (and if you want: 2 = non-binary)





You can dress it up any way you like, as long as you turn the var into 0 for male, and 1 for female.

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2. Preparing pronouns

Now we are going to set up the pronouns for the genders. There are 3 pronouns for each gender.
Each of the following lines fit only one of those pronouns:

HE is so cute!
SHE is so cute!

I love HIS smile!
I love HER smile!

I have a crush on HIM!
I have a crush on HER!

But all 3 pronouns can be part of a single line:
When I saw HIM walking HIS dog in the park, HE waved at me.

For this reason I, I use 3 variables per pronouns... (Twice, but we get to that later)

I use variable 32, 33 and 34 in this example:







If game var 31 is 0, var 32, 33 and 34 will now contain the words "He" "His" and "Him".
If game var 31 is 1, var 32, 33 and 34 will now contain the words "She" "Her" and "Her".

Remember I said we do this twice? We set up 3 variables like this again, but this time, we do no use caps.
In this example we use car 35, 36 and 37:




We only have to do this once in your whole game. Never change the value of those variables, again.

If you want a 3rd (or  more) gender, and your want its pronouns to be Xi/Xis/Xem. then simple add those to the array (the list of pronouns in a single value) like this:




Now if the variable for genders is set to 2, the pronouns is Xi/Xis/Xim. I've add a third option to the players choice to choose not to play as a man or a woman.

You can add as many genders as you like!

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3. Writing dialogue

Your system is ready to be used now.

When you write dialogue, then ALWAYS assume your player is MALE! This is important because male pronouns has Him and His, but for the female they are both Her. I saw HIM on HIS bike, or I saw HER on HER bike. For females they are the same pronouns, but not for males. That is why we write as if all our players play as male, so we don't use the wrong pronouns for any of the genders.

We are going to write the following message, as example:

When I saw him walking his dog in the park, he
waved at me. His puppy is so cute! He probably loves
his puppy more than he loves his mother.

All 3 pronouns are in this line multiple times. It is important to note that SOME of them are starting with a capital letter. It is a good thing we prepared for this.

When we want to show this in dialogue, we simply replace all pronounce with the value of the pronounce variable. Like this:




If the main character is a guy, you will get this:




And for a girl it would be like this:




And for the other gender:

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Thanks for reading! I hoped this helped you and your buddies to make the game you always wanted to make.

And some of you might think: "Oh, do I need to put \v[x] here and there and everywhere?" Well, no. It is not that common that a game refers to the protagonist in the third person. In 99% of all your text, you will just use YOU and YOUR and YOURS as pronounce, when talking directly to your character. Only when other characters talk about your character, but not to your character, you need to use the pronouns by variables.

Have fun, and I am a little early, but... Enjoy your weekend!

(Edit: I messed up!! You see, after the comma I used the wrong variables, so there is a capitalized pronoun... This is what I tried to prevent by using 2 variables for each pronoun. I'm too lazy to make new screenshots, though)



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