From the start, Roll7 has pushed that everyone should feel comfortable in Radlandia, with no gender options, pronouns, or religious discrimination to get in the way of the rad skating. The me I am now is the happiest I’ve ever been with my look, hence the comfortable pisstaking, but it’s not one that’s easy to recreate in games and often gives me a bit of an identity crisis as I search the tattoo menu desperately for the smoking Bojack Horseman head. No longer was it the ocassional floral shirt if I was feeling a little brave, it was the ‘all-eyes-on-me’ pink jacket, plaid trousers that get taken the piss out of for being pajamas, and arms that might as well be sticker sheets for every IP I’ve enjoyed - spoiler alert, it’s pretty much all of them. Since then, I’ve changed my hair colour six different times, added 30 tattoos to my body, and opened up even more about how I want to dress. Jump to 2022 and that version of George is almost completely unrecognisable, and a sore reminder of how much has changed in such a short amount of time.
My world the game creators pro#
At least, that’s what I thought at the time.īack when Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 released in 2020, I was certain that the avatar I’d made there, with his two small tattoos and blonde hair, was the most accurate representation of me I’d ever put to pixels. Beyond just growing out of the notion that I had to dress and style myself for others, dyeing my hair blonde in honour of that friend and getting my first tattoo as a seize the day gesture opened my eyes to how I really wanted to look. In 2019, my best friend’s brother passed away, leading to a “fuck it” moment of self changing and discovery.