The Bechdel test

What is the Bechdel test?
Well it's something I learnt about this week so I'm going to go on about it!


It's a test with 3 rules in it, originally made for films to simply test the presence of woman in the film.

It does NOT test for stereotypes, or the quality of the film.

The 3 rules are:

* There has to be at least 2 women in the film.
* The women must interact
* They must talk about something besides a man, any man.

Now this is just for film, people have suggested it should be changed for games such as:

* Does the game have a playable female character?
* Who isn't fetishized to attract sales
* And isn't meant to be rescued at any point


Those 3 possible rules and explanations can be found here

http://gnovisjournal.org/2012/10/17/do-video-games-need-their-own-bechdel-test/


The rescuing rule had quite a good point for games that the main goal is to save a female and the world.
'' If the threat is that enormous, it’s more likely women and men will join forces to fight it. ''
Then the person went on to praise RGP's such as final fantasy as RPG's usually have a more even number of playable males and females.


Games have yet to be studied against the original Bechdel test but there only appear to be a few games that are mentioned for passing proudly such as Mass effect and Portal.


Although if games need this sort of test, that in itself proves there is something wrong with the amount of female characters in games and there roles.