As a devotee of retro, I had to take a look.
I like the crappy green dot matrix screen, well implemented to look like an old gameboy. The gameplay itself was dull and unfun. I could see some words offending people. I know the robot doesn't care, but you might.
But I did get conglaturated joke!! Ha!
Reviews for "Social Dysphoria The Game"
So you put out an entire game that basically said, "Cisgender people are stupid, throw rocks at them"?
It's hard NOT to take it seriously, especially since it's another step towards turning "cisgender" into an insult.
VOEC responds:
I agree with you on that.
I did not write the original idea, but if I would have I wouldn't have called the enemy cisbot, since as you said not every cis person is ignorant towards trans people.
But I wanted to stick to the original tumblr post since that was kind of the idea behind the whole thing.
I guess it stems from the writers personal experience with some cis people in her life.
I did not in any way wanted to say that cis people are all hateful and insult transgender people, but I recognize that it can give that impression and I'm very sorry for it.
I knew that this might be a problem. But I also didn't know if I should change it and how to call him other than asshole-bot, and that seems a bit stupid.
But if you have any suggestion how to make it clear, that this is not meant to insult cis people in the context of the game, I would very, very much appreciate your input. Thanks.
Pretty unfun all things considered and...really on the nose. And...Uneducated Doctors???
Not much of a game imo, seems like a projection of imagined prejudices more than anything.
There is absolutely nothing inherently bigoted in cisgendered people. I know Trans people who are just as bigoted as the worst of the "cis scum" that you rail against.
VOEC responds:
I do not rail against any "cis scum" (I also did not say that anywhere, so please don't false quote me).
And I agree, there is nothing inherently bigoted about cis people, if you would have read the description or some of my comment-responses you would have know that.