“Another step is to then humanize the aliens…. “Reducing humans to caricatures, basically dehumanizing them, is a first step to do this,” said Sallman. David Sallman, who worked as lead game designer on Black Forest Games’ remake of Destroy All Humans!, in which players take on the role of a hilariously murderous extraterrestrial, laid out a simple roadmap for getting players to identify with humanity’s adversaries. Maneater, Carrion, Destroy All Humans! each cast players as human-killing creatures and gave them permission to go wild. In 2020, the games industry produced a bumper crop of titles that cast players as literal monsters. Humanize The Monster, Dehumanize The Humans As Crypto, the alien invader protagonist of Destroy All Humans!, you, uh…destroy a fair number of humans in some pretty hilarious ways. To answer those questions and more, we need to take a closer look at the work developers do to create compelling games, and the work psychologists and academics have done to help us better understand the engines that power moral choice.
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