'Minecraft' and 'Kerbal Space Program' Finally Accept Girls Can Do Science

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> For the first time ever, you can play as a girl character in Minecraft.

Player skins have been in the game since ages and it has been possible (no more tricky than installing a mod) to change the default player skin so it's surprising for them to say "for the first time ever"

The Alex skin has been on the PC version since 1.8, which was last August I think.

Funny how gender free games are getting harassed by SJW to get more genders in them for sake of gender equality...

The Steve skin is clearly unambiguously male. The fall damage noise used to be clearly unambiguously male.

That's not "gender free".

What tells you it is a human in the first place ? It is a fictionnal world, it could be a monogender race, you don't know that. I don't recall Bioware making 'male' asaris in Mass Effect where they are clearly unambiguously female. Why forcing anthropocentrism in fictionnal worlds where lore and characters may be secondary or where you don't need to associate with its characters ?

Notch talks about the human character.

I realise all the mobs have a single gender - I asked about it in Aug 2013 - but the player character was male human for a while.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/78098/how-to-refe...

Though you are right about the character in Minecraft, the characters in ksp are never refered to as human

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