Category definition
Game scale provides production context through labels such as AAA, AA, independent, mobile, browser, or student/amateur. It is a descriptive archive field, not a judgment of quality or reach.
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Game production scale
The recorded production scale of games associated with character entries.
Calculation
The chart counts character records by the game-scale tags attached to their game. A title with several documented characters contributes once for each character record.
Interpretation
This is not a unique-game distribution. Use the examples to see which characters and titles create each count, and note that hybrid scale labels can overlap.
Percentage base: all documented character records.
Includes Not recorded when values are missing.
Can exceed the record total because categories overlap.
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Sources and framework
Research basis for game scale
These sources inform the project’s definitions and safeguards. They do not make Press Q exhaustive, peer reviewed, or free from curatorial judgment.
Shaw, Adrienne, et al. “About (Please Read First!).” LGBTQ Video Game Archive.
Supports the distinction between explicitly coded content, creator statements, queer readings, and incomplete research coverage.
D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. Data Feminism. MIT Press, 2020.
Grounds the project’s attention to power, context, plural perspectives, and the limitations of binaries and apparently neutral classifications.