Female Character Models?

[RustyZeroShift]

I noticed that there appear to be female character models in some of the promotional art, though that might be before the game changed developers. Also, for the life of me, I can't figure out which armor is the blue and gold set the dude in almost all the trailers, etc. is wearing. Are these things already in the game, and I'm just dumb, or are they in development, etc?

[Ned]

BLOCK BOOBIES!
a must have

[RustyZeroShift]

Being able to play as a woman is so rare a feature in shooters these days, it's practically a selling point.

[Sonitorum]

It's an old TimeGate concept, but Human Head Studios made the design choice to keep all blockmen genderless, so no block boobs coming.

They really need to replace the promo art.

[RustyZeroShift]

Ah, yeah, they really do, then.

[Jakuzi]

what in the hell are you talking about female character models?
we're playing with nongendered blocks, why would you want to mess that up

[Clit Commander]

Originally posted by Jakuzi:

we're playing with nongendered blocks, why would you want to mess that up

Because Tiittiesssss?

[RustyZeroShift]

Chillax. I was just curious about the promotional art.

[Prism]

Originally posted by Sonitorum:

It's an old TimeGate concept, but Human Head Studios made the design choice to keep all blockmen genderless, so no block boobs coming.

They really need to replace the promo art.

What a shame...I was thinking it would be in a future update...

Edit: I don't see why you'd take something like that out of a game like this. Or unless it wasn't added yet, drop that idea. That was something I was looking forward to.

[Jenvas]

http://playminimum.com/object_category/armor/

so they clearly state there that players can choose to be male or female and then they dont really give us that option?
Im fine with genderless block people, but those in minimum clearly look male (larger upper body for example)

[Sonitorum]

The website needs an update really badly. Most of the stuff mentioned on there is TimeGate's original plans. And while Human Head Studios pulled through/will pull through with most of the core features, other auxiliary features like gender choice and Weapon Maximization have been scrapped.

[NormNazaroff@HH]

I made a post in the other thread on this topic but I'm going to copy and paste it here!

At various points in Minimum's development we had both "male" and "female" block models for players, which is of course what you see in the older trailer and screenshots. A few months before heading into Early Access we took a look at this and decided that gendering our block people felt strange. Why did we need to add stereotypically female characterstics to these characters? We felt that it would be more interesting if our block people weren't gendered at all - if they were all just block folks.

We made the switch and did away with the "female" model, but the reality was that we didn't really think of them as female or male. We wanted our one block model to be genderless rather than male.

Unfortunately, being a small team we failed to clean up our older art assets and ended up with the images you responded to still out there. I'm very sorry if you feel like we mislead you into buying Minimum as that absolutely was not our intention.

For the time being we'll be making a pass on our advertising material to make sure it correctly represents the features in our game. In the long term, I'd like to have a conversation with you, our players: what do you think about gendered block models? Do you like the idea of our block people not having a gender, or would you prefer we implement additional models that clearly differentiate between male and female?

We think it's interesting to have a genderless world, but our opinion is not the only one that matters. Please do let us know what you think!

[Jenvas]

they are gendered. just boobs or no boobs isnt the only thing that makes a model look male or female. the sturdy build and clearly larger upperbody part of the playermodels make them look quite male. just another game that sets male as the default and female as the variation. all it needs is a more slender build and you got something that look more feminine, just look at atlas and p-body from portal 2.
I usually play with my boyfriend and having the option to play as female gets just more important for me that way. playing a dude is just weird.
if it wasnt just 5€ I would have looked closer and I wish I did before buying, because I do not want to support that playing as female is a feature that gets scrapped so easily.

[Prism]

When I see Minimum, I see a world with living people. Just because they're blocks doesn't mean that they have to straight forward be robots, or moving statues. It feels...dull...I see the Titans as the machines, the big league robots, while the human-sized block people are living, organic. To me, living shapes like that make it feel more like a civilization, instead of an automatonic war. That is the main reason I'd like to see there be genders. It adds feeling into the characters. I respect your idea of unisex civilization and I understand that you are having to deal with more important issues like bugs in the game at the moment, but please, just think about it.

[NormNazaroff@HH]

Originally posted by Jenvas1306:

they are gendered. just boobs or no boobs isnt the only thing that makes a model look male or female. the sturdy build and clearly larger upperbody part of the playermodels make them look quite male. just another game that sets male as the default and female as the variation. all it needs is a more slender build and you got something that look more feminine, just look at atlas and p-body from portal 2.
I usually play with my boyfriend and having the option to play as female gets just more important for me that way. playing a dude is just weird.
if it wasnt just 5€ I would have looked closer and I wish I did before buying, because I do not want to support that playing as female is a feature that gets scrapped so easily.

Thank you for this reply. I do want to emphasize that we didn't consider it scrapping a feature, we really did decide that our block folks were "genderless." But I absolutely understand what you mean when you say that, regardless of what we might want our models to represent, they do have some traditionally masculine characteristics.

To expand on this further, if our base models were less clearly masculine would you like the idea of genderless block people, or would you still prefer we had two different gendered models?

[Jenvas]

Originally posted by NormNazaroff@HH:

To expand on this further, if our base models were less clearly masculine would you like the idea of genderless block people, or would you still prefer we had two different gendered models?

having the choice is always better than not having it. But playing as a genderless block person is more acceptable than being forced to play a male one.
btw, there is a difference between sexless and genderless.

I actually quite liked what some screenshot showed of the female models. simply more slender built and with slimmer limbs, no exploitive nonsense