[quote]Stephen ‘Increpare‘ Lavelle is probably one of the most important game makers of our time. I do not say this lightly. Increpare is prolific, distributes most of his games for free via his website, and constantly plays with form, structure, message, theme, mechanics, and music in a way that no other person does, in a way that large scale games development would never dare. He is ridiculously well read and his work displays a constant and empathetic awareness of social struggle, of political issues, and of complex interpersonal issues.[/quote]
hahaha keep dreaming pal
did i just see a trigger warning in a news article?
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;44766565]did i just see a trigger warning in a news article?[/QUOTE]
Is there something wrong with that? Some people might be uncomfortable.
[quote]Stephen ‘Increpare‘ Lavelle is probably one of the most important game makers of our time. I do not say this lightly. Increpare is prolific, distributes most of his games for free via his website, and constantly plays with form, structure, message, theme, mechanics, and music in a way that no other person does, in a way that large scale games development would never dare. He is ridiculously well read and his work displays a constant and empathetic awareness of social struggle, of political issues, and of complex interpersonal issues.[/quote]
Uhh...
[quote]
He is my favourite game maker. I discovered him two years ago whilst I was an emotionally broken wreck living in my friend’s attic. I sent this Wot I Think, my first ever, to Alec from that attic, and it was on Increpare’s Slave of God, which had the same sort of effect on my heart as a defibrillator. I’d been a zombie for months. I’d been trailing around the winter streets of Brighton and London half a frozen human being. I felt like I’d been shot and was slowly bleeding out until all of a sudden that game made my fingers type. I wrote words; at a weird juncture in my life, Increpare’s game all of a sudden made me a writer. That was when I knew that I would be okay. [/quote]
Yeah this sounds like the kind of person to write an objective article about the subject at hand no bias here nope none at all.
man id be mighty shocked if i was rubbin one off to a pixel lady in my video game and it suddenly took a big sexual violence angle.
my condolences for those who were caught in a similar situation
[quote]You don’t usually hear Candy’s voice, because it wasn’t written. Perhaps what she really has to say is more gritty than twenty Call of Duties put together.[/quote]
Ugh
8 bit indie game original early access retro art puzzle game challenging borders social issues social justice risqué donate triple a challenging
This entire article is buzzwords and pretentious crap.
Sexual assault and stuff is a serious issue and saying that a game where you re arrange pictures is one of the biggest movements in the industry for bringing issues like date rape into the spotlight is the most insensitive and demeaning thing ever said about the movement in it's entirety.
This reads more like an uneducated tumblr post than a professional news article/opinion piece/review of the video game. The third last paragraph is whining about how GTA, a satirical game meant to offend people and challenge our social construct, is offensive.
If you're going to praise a game for pushing certain boundaries, don't call out other games for pushing different ones.
[QUOTE=Waffle cones.;44768459]This game is almost 5 years old.
Why write about it now?[/QUOTE]
out of material
[QUOTE=Waffle cones.;44768459]This game is almost 5 years old.
Why write about it now?[/QUOTE]
[quote]constantly plays with form, structure, message, theme, mechanics, and music in a way that no other person does, in a way that large scale games development would never dare[/quote]
I dont think she's played a video game in the past 5 years
"First level you take clothes off then you put them back on!"
[I][B][U]REVOLUTIONARY GAMEPLAY[/U][/B][/I]
wtf
why is this an article
rps what are you doing
A trigger warning.
I think I've officially lost all respect for RPS.
Add trigger warnings to trigger warnings, I get mad and uncomfortable when I see them.
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;44768418]8 bit indie game original early access retro art puzzle game challenging borders social issues social justice risqué donate triple a challenging
This entire article is buzzwords and pretentious crap.
Sexual assault and stuff is a serious issue and saying that a game where you re arrange pictures is one of the biggest movements in the industry for bringing issues like date rape into the spotlight is the most insensitive and demeaning thing ever said about the movement in it's entirety.
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Seeing indie games get lionized without earning it is a big pet peeve of mine, even more so when writers assign them a disproportionate level of social relevance. This article goes so far trying to claim that this is a Very Important Game made by a Very Important Person, I'm tempted to think its a shill (very convenient there's a direct donation link in the article).
RPS used to have genuinely interesting reads years ago, but now it looks more and more like a smugger, snooty cousin of Kotaku, gutter press among gutter press.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/8Gr6I.jpg[/IMG]
Can a successful tumblr land me a spot at RPS?
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;44771878]Can a successful tumblr land me a spot at RPS?[/QUOTE]
Is it filled with hypocrisy, obnoxious social justice commentary, and a massive, unwarranted sense of righteousness?
[QUOTE]Perhaps what she really has to say is more gritty than twenty Call of Duties put together.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LyYj7Bb.gif[/IMG]
I haven't read RPS since that atrocious interview with CDPR, it's kind of sad what it has become.
The call of duty line was the worst because up until mw2, CoD was actually pretty gritty
I just went on this increpare guy's site and played a game called "transgression". Do you guys want to give it a go?
[url]http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/Forgiveness/[/url]
[sp]This game must have taken about 10 minutes to make[/sp]
[QUOTE=Samiam22;44777875]I just went on this increpare guy's site and played a game called "transgression". Do you guys want to give it a go?
[url]http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/Forgiveness/[/url]
[sp]This game must have taken about 10 minutes to make[/sp][/QUOTE]
Wow his main website is hideous looking
Why do people have an issue with trigger warnings? I mean it's just a pretty harmless short notice for people who have had past traumas, I would have expected that's something everyone could get behind.
[QUOTE=Elspin;44784103]Why do people have an issue with trigger warnings? I mean it's just a pretty harmless short notice for people who have had past traumas, I would have expected that's something everyone could get behind.[/QUOTE]It seems to be one of those things that, while good in practice, may have been rather heavily tainted in the public eye by "early adopters."
I mean most people see no issue with movie rating systems; but when [url=http://www.movietriggers.com]a website that categorizes movies by trigger warnings[/url] shows up, and its community decides that [url=http://www.movietriggers.com/movies/5660]this[/url] is an accurate compilation of all the possible triggers in something, eyes start rolling fast.
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;44766565]did i just see a trigger warning in a news article?[/QUOTE]
Haven't you ever seen a TV show with a warning about graphical content or uncomfortable scenes before it starts?
[QUOTE=Elspin;44784103]Why do people have an issue with trigger warnings? I mean it's just a pretty harmless short notice for people who have had past traumas, I would have expected that's something everyone could get behind.[/QUOTE]
You serious?
Are you actually serious?
Trigger warning bullshit is just tumblr crap, and isn't even primarily used by people who have had severe traumas, just hard done by Tumblr users that need to erect a feelings shield whenever something that could make them mildly uneasy appears. It pisses me off and makes me think whatever I'm reading is satire if it had a trigger warning.
I wish tumblr never invented social psychology and psychiatry all of these trigger warnings are getting on my nerves!
[editline]11th May 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;44771878]a successful tumblr[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=NiandraLades;44785188]Haven't you ever seen a TV show with a warning about graphical content or uncomfortable scenes before it starts?[/QUOTE]
ye, they dont say trigger warning. They just say it may disturb some audiences. I think trigger warnings are offensive because of the term trigger. Makes people who get anxious at this sort of thing seem like severely ill people who will just snap into a rage or a fit of crying if they see things like this. Its just not true. Some people can control these anxiety attacks and can keep calm long enough to get their mind away from it. Saying trigger just makes people feel like they cant heal themselves and that hearing the words rape or sexual assault will always cause this reaction.
I think it's amazing that people who claim to be so sensitive and understanding can be so daft to ignore the basics like this.
I dislike trigger warnings because they usually spoil something that's gonna happen in a work of fiction. For example, I was watching a let's play, and because the guy playing has to be all SJW for his audience, he put a trigger warning for self-harm, which completely spoiled a significant moment in the game.
FP needs a trigger warning for trigger warnings.
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