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Joshua Wolens

Indie dev says 'best I can do is sentient tofu' after fans demand a male protagonist—they respond oh yeah, actually Mr Tofu works fine, thanks

Mr Tofu in Honcho.

Quick question: when you make a character in a game, do you play as your own gender or get wild with it? Me, I always used to play as a man (which I am, notionally, in real life) as a kid, but these days I play a woman 99% of the time. Women? Cool. Women with a gun/sword/lightsaber/inherited-and-possibly-magical-farmyard? Even cooler. It's simple maths.

But some people are bad at maths, like one fan of upcoming delivery sim Honcho, who took to the game's Steam forums to make a humble request: please let me play as a dude.

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