I don't agree with the message, but I love how nicely you have delivered it. The method of deliverance has a "Jonathan Blow" feel to it, in a sense that it's not straight forward, but still not too confusing or pointless, it's just right enough to push the player into the process of interpreting this movements. The game-play is not bad either, but it gets really boring after a while, especially once you get that the levels are repeating with nothing changing. An idea that I have is that since you are shooting letters, maybe you can write something with the letters you have shoot down, and by writing the correct word win something...
Reviews for "Social Dysphoria The Game"
lovely game, reccomending it to my mates
My top score (and my only one) in endless mode was 12,605. I thought it was really interesting how I was able to be so good at this without really liking the game. It was basically just the same thing over and over. I'm not complaining, I'm damn good at it! I now have all the medals except the secret ones. I doubt I'll go back for them.
I just thought it was interesting how you had such a good title. I'm pretty sure I'm a boy. The computer didn't seem to believe me either way. While not a classic, definitley worth looking into for the easy medals. Yeah, I'm that kind of guy.
There's an awful lot of cisplaining going on in these reviews. Personally, I think calling the antagonist Cisbot was to the point. I also appreciated including the unlockable genderqueer character, although it took me a little while to get enough points. Of course for such a small game, the rhetoric is simplified, but personally as a cisguy I thought it wasn't bad. The music was great, too, and the mechanic, though not *too* different from any other shoot-em-up, is executed well. My main complaint is that while the controls were very smooth, every so often they would freak out for a second and the character would keep moving right into a pronoun-bullet.
Also, on the victory screen, it says "conglaturations" instead of "congratulations"--might want to fix that :P
VOEC responds:
That last one is deliberate. Search for "Gostbusters Nes" ;)
Great game, I loved it! I find it a little bit repetitive, I feel like there could be more power-ups like traditional bullet games (spreadshot, machine gun, etc) or have the different levels be made with different music/colors.
It looks like you accidentally misspelled proving. Not that big of a deal but I noticed.
Also, as it was already pointed out, kind of wish nonbinary wasn't an award and was instead one of your options.
You did a fantastic job though! I had to make an account just to write my first review for you... :>