We did a prototype where we put a womans

Theres rarely been as much optimism surrounding the release of the latest Fifa title as there has been around Fifa 16. When the game was first revealed, EA also proudly announced the inclusion of  Fifa 17 Coins womens football for the very first time. Female athletes are seldom seen in sports games outside of those tied to the Olympic Games, so the announcement represented a huge step forward. The recent Fifa Womens World Cup, which took place in Canada in June and July of this year, was considered a huge success – and not just for the England, who were placed third.

The event itself did much to help raise the profile of the womens game, which continues to grow in stature and earn rightful respect worldwide. At Gamescom 2015 in Cologne, Germany, IBTimes UK sat down with the series senior producer, Nick Channon.

We talked to him about the inclusion of the womens game, what its like to be in a constant state of motion developing a now-annual game and the influence of rival series Pro Evolution Soccer – which in Fifa Coins recent years has found its form again. IBTimes UK: When did discussions about introducing womens football start? Nick Channon: It was a couple of years ago now.

We did a prototype where we put a womans head on a mans body – we didnt do that to ship it, we did it to see where all the problems were, and created a long list of things we needed to do if we were going to do it properly. We were only going to put women in our game if we could do it right – and a lot of that was around body scaling.

We didnt have the technology to Fifa 17 Points Account  do that, to scale bodies in a way so we could do limbs separately. We needed new animations, we wanted hair simulation and scanned faces. After the initial announcement, some fans undermined the importance of the inclusion of womens football, saying that time should have been put into improving game play.