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Ruin Jam 2014
Oct. 2nd, 2014 09:41 pmIn the spirit of my previous writeup on the Fear of Twine exhibition, I decided to play every single game in Ruin Jam so you don't have to. Don't say I never did anything for y'all. (Okay, every single game that would run on an OSX system, because I was too damn lazy to boot my Windows machine. CLOSE ENOUGH.)
(Also, for those who missed the news leading up to this, the whole jam was loosely inspired by that "gamergate" thing, which I can't be assed to summarize, but which definitely led to a lot of dudes whining about how women/queer folk/etc etc are "ruining" video games, which led to some fabulous snark, and thusly, a game jam devoted to ruining video games.)
I do feel like it'd be not-in-the-spirit of Ruin Jam to call out games that I didn't "get", thought were incomplete, etc, since they, too, are fulfilling the criteria of ruining video games! So instead I'll only talk about the things that were especially lulz/amusing/excellent, and you can ask me my thoughts on any of the others if you're curious for some reason.
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And, phew, that is a WRAP. I had fun playing through all the games, even if it took more time than I thought it would, haha (over EIGHTY GAMES oh my goodness). I put "2014" in the title optimistically, because I think it'd be great to have a jam for ruining video games every year :D
(Also, for those who missed the news leading up to this, the whole jam was loosely inspired by that "gamergate" thing, which I can't be assed to summarize, but which definitely led to a lot of dudes whining about how women/queer folk/etc etc are "ruining" video games, which led to some fabulous snark, and thusly, a game jam devoted to ruining video games.)
I do feel like it'd be not-in-the-spirit of Ruin Jam to call out games that I didn't "get", thought were incomplete, etc, since they, too, are fulfilling the criteria of ruining video games! So instead I'll only talk about the things that were especially lulz/amusing/excellent, and you can ask me my thoughts on any of the others if you're curious for some reason.
( Read more... )
And, phew, that is a WRAP. I had fun playing through all the games, even if it took more time than I thought it would, haha (over EIGHTY GAMES oh my goodness). I put "2014" in the title optimistically, because I think it'd be great to have a jam for ruining video games every year :D
