Come join Save the Villainess in celebrating Steam's Game Developers of Color Festival, which celebrates the works of dozens of game developers from diverse backgrounds!
Last year, we also had the pleasure of hosting a talk on Save the Villainess at the Game Devs of Color expo. Our talk is called “Why Save the Villainess? Challenging Injustice through Perspective” and can be viewed on Youtube below:
This talk strikes at the heart of an important question that haunts every story of a villainess that experiences and fights against a cruel fate. Namely, what makes a woman a villainess? After all, while Save the Villainess is a game that asks you to discover who wants to murder a villainess, it also reflects on how Jane’s identity as an autistic biracial woman makes her a villainess within the cruel and unjust historical society she is thrown into. Is Jane a villainess because of the past actions of the original Jane Neville? Or is Jane a villainess because she does not follow the rules of her cruel, sexist, and classist culture?
Finally, how do the injustices that Jane faces as a woman outside the bounds of ‘accepted society’ reflect in the cruelties that people outside the bounds of ‘accepted society’ experience today?
Ultimately, we hope that everyone who has ever experienced cruelty, persecution, and injustice due to being different from those around her can empathize with Jane and other villainesses like her. If you’ve ever been hurt by others for your differences, we hope Jane is someone you can relate to.