![]() Then that’s targeting more current skate kids.”įox credits her interest in real-life skate culture and its development over the years for the ease with which she settled into creating this new generation of game. Or you ground in any of the more modern genres. “In terms of skate games, there are two kinds,” she says with some authority, “Either you roll hard on ‘skatepunk’ or certain kinds of hip hop, and that points you dead in the mid-nineties, dead in the middle of that culture, which is pretty exclusive. The developers of skating games seem to find it hard to tear themselves away from the ‘retro’ angle that the culture readily provides, the pop-punk and Tony Hawk vibes endlessly recycled due to their ubiquity with the genre. ![]() Megan Fox, the creator of Skatebird, says this was very much a conscious decision, and it was always her intention to modernise through music – arguably one of the most important facets of skate culture. That, and it’s about a skateboarding bird. Skatebird was conceived within this culture, and fed from its roots, growing to encompass something of the more inclusive and progressive elements of skate culture. Skateparks are full of kids of all genders having a go, the culture is wide and all-encompassing, and skating groups around the world have been responsible for some incredible community and social projects. Times have changed, and the modern skate scene is one of the most inclusive and encouraging environments a person could wish for. READ MORE: ‘Satisfactory’ lets you build unparalleled accomplishment.As fun and as irreverent and as cohesive as this culture was… it was also most commonly the solitary preserve of white, twenty-something-year-old men. ![]() So pervasive is the image that you’re probably already getting the whiff of baggy jeans, pop-punk, and fish-eye lens coming to you on the breeze. When I say ‘90s skate culture, you know exactly what I mean.
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