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[Sensei]

Frankly, I'm surprised you guys dropped the bosnian pyramid one so quickly. There are updates to it, for crying out loud. Did you know that guy has a running demo of his game?



This is what gets me: There's some obvious photoshop skills (or at least time spent) and coding skills (again, or at least time spent). It's more work than goes into a lot of wishful amateur game projects. And yet it's so ugly, at the same time as being detailed and having evidently taken a lot of work. The true sign of a complete train wreck that refuses to die. And it doesn't stop there- watch the gameplay video (in the link above). Yes, they have a gameplay video. Yes, it looks godawful slow-paced. Yes, he's moving around by touching the screen near his character and then pressing and holding a button in a corner of the screen to attack. Yes, it's a real time game. Yes, you saw him wandering around looking for hidden things (like, you-have-to-walk-over-them-with-your-slow-walk hidden) before going to the next room. And yes, they have working gameplay.

With all that terrible design, and a background in bizarre and possibly dangerous genuine craziness, it really reminds me of MDicky and his games. My god, what if MDicky hadn't quit before Kickstarter became a popular platform for launching video games...

[forsaken1111]

I certainly haven't seen any fictional females "outside of obvious parody" that have HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK level cleavage.

Cleavage - noun  The area between a woman's breasts, especially when revealed by a low-cut neckline.

I see no cleavage in the linked picture.

Amazing how far she's come eh?

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[SealyStar]

Frankly, I'm surprised you guys dropped the bosnian pyramid one so quickly. There are updates to it, for crying out loud. Did you know that guy has a running demo of his game?



This is what gets me: There's some obvious photoshop skills (or at least time spent) and coding skills (again, or at least time spent). It's more work than goes into a lot of wishful amateur game projects. And yet it's so ugly, at the same time as being detailed and having evidently taken a lot of work. The true sign of a complete train wreck that refuses to die. And it doesn't stop there- watch the gameplay video (in the link above). Yes, they have a gameplay video. Yes, it looks godawful slow-paced. Yes, he's moving around by touching the screen near his character and then pressing and holding a button in a corner of the screen to attack. Yes, it's a real time game. Yes, you saw him wandering around looking for hidden things (like, you-have-to-walk-over-them-with-your-slow-walk hidden) before going to the next room. And yes, they have working gameplay.

With all that terrible design, and a background in bizarre and possibly dangerous genuine craziness, it really reminds me of MDicky and his games. My god, what if MDicky hadn't quit before Kickstarter became a popular platform for launching video games...

Yeah, that's what I thought about that Bosnian pyramids game, too. Surprisingly good Photoshop and amount of time. But that doesn't stop the game from looking and playing ugly.

[penguinofhonor]

Sexy Anime Girls: The Card Game

Very successful. I wonder what most of their marketing came from.

[Megaman]

Stuff like this is why grampa Jebidiah thinks the internet melts people into filthy perverts.

[penguinofhonor]

$26000 worth of filthy perverts. I really know I shouldn't be surprised by that amount.

[freeformschooler]

You also have to have other hormonal teenage anime nerd friends to play it with.

I can see this being a problem with hormonal teenage anime nerds if the stereotypes about them are at all true.

[penguinofhonor]

"Does anyone else want to play Kanzume Goddess?"

I hope that turns into one of those everyone-leave-the-room statements.

[Megaman]

Everyone knows  such a thing is a very unsustainable business model.

The increase in population of the predatory jock may cause the extinction of the wild anime nerd outside of reservations.

[nenjin]

Wow, tempted to rename the thread "When Kickstarter goes misogynistic" based on the last few pages.

Just a friendly reminder to keep it congenial while you debate.

[kaijyuu]

Other than OMIGOSH BOOBS I don't see anything particularly notable about it. Only quickly glanced over it, though.


And you people are saying "filthy perverts" as if that's somehow a bad thing. OMIGOSH BOOBS is just fine so long as it's not the only portrayal of women in the market. And in card games... my only experience is with Magic the Gathering and it's one of the fantasy settings with a moderate, but not horrible, case of the Chainmail Bikini Syndrome.

[penguinofhonor]

Art like this

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puts it straight past OMG BOOBS and into "sexy anime ladies that will be lesbians for me". It's another notch up on the animes scale.

And their marketing seems to be 90% art, 10% mechanics. Which just seems to make the issue even more apparent.

[Megaman]

This stereotypes ANYONE who enjoys anime or card games as being obsessed with hawtsexyboobladiez to the layperson.

[kaijyuu]

I never claimed it was anything other than softcore porn. Which might be against kickstarter's rules, now that I think about it.

This stereotypes ANYONE who enjoys anime or card games as being obsessed with hawtsexyboobladiez to the layperson.

The only people who draw that conclusion are associative fallacy using douchebags. If you find someone making that inference, please, punch them in the face for me.

[Megaman]

Then that would stereotype anyone that uses Bay12 as one who who uses violence to pacify anyone who disagrees with him/her

If too many things like that indeed do exist, and a large following becomes very visible, I think many non-douchebags would be very tempted to make that fallacy.

Like the way many people make the assumption that Muslims are terrorishts, a perfectly reasonable person who is not exposed to evidence suggesting otherwise would also believe such a thing very willingly.