How to guilt trip people into giving a shit

june gloom on 14/3/2010 at 01:48

Step 1: make a game like (http://www.destructoid.com/gdc-10-the-holocaust-board-game-166862.phtml) Train.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: ~~profit~~ take satisfaction in the knowledge that you forced people to think about something uncomfortable to really drive the point home.

Thief13x on 14/3/2010 at 01:56

Quote Posted by dethtoll

How to <s>guilt</s> trip people into <s>giving a</s> shit

I think I found where step 2 went!

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Perhaps part of this reaction came from the fact that Train isn't "fun," by any stretch of the imagination. "Why do games have to be fun?", Brathwaite asked. Schindler's List isn't fun. "No other medium is like, oh, it's gotta be fun."

gunsmoke on 14/3/2010 at 02:08

Or, you could just go (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Cleansing_(video_game)) this way... :nono::nono::nono: :mad::mad::mad:

Scots Taffer on 14/3/2010 at 02:11

It's an interesting concept, but I'm not sure she can't be charged with being a bit smug when quipping "You just did" to the Rabbi who said he didn't want to play the game.

Thief13x on 14/3/2010 at 02:13

Quote Posted by gunsmoke

Or, you could just go (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Cleansing_(video_game)) this way... :nono::nono::nono: :mad::mad::mad:

crazy that you can actually find developers soulless enough to produce this crap

rachel on 14/3/2010 at 10:26

Doesn't telling the whole spoiler ending thing to the whole internet kind of defeat the point?

Kolya on 14/3/2010 at 10:45

The part that got me laughing was that she wrote the cards "on an actual nazi typewriter". Now what is that? Does it type nazi runes only? Apparently not from the looks of it. So in the end it's just an old German typewriter. Is a typewriter nazi if nazis used it? Or is that like buying a pen that Michael Jackson once used to sign into a hotel and calling it "Michael Jackson Pen".

I suggest she makes a game about the fascination of evil next. Though thinking about it, TRAIN might be that game.

Briareos H on 14/3/2010 at 11:35

The mechanisms of triggering a strong emotional response of any kind* to an highly unexpected event in an interactive environment are absolutely interesting and worth experimenting. That's where a growing subset of gaming is going.

Choosing the holocaust as a playground for that experiment is just goddamn lazy. And the fact she's acting all smug doesn't help.
also, nazi typewriter

* it really doesn't have to be fun

Yakoob on 14/3/2010 at 12:19

Am I a horrible person for knowing that, had I actually played the game in first place, the holocaust would be the first thing that would come into my mind and I probably could not stop throwing snide remarks about it left and right?

Queue on 14/3/2010 at 14:10

Quote Posted by Kolya

The part that got me laughing was that she wrote the cards "on an actual nazi typewriter". Now what is that? Does it type nazi runes only?

I know that during the era, Remington (among some others) made typewriters specifically for the Nazis that had a key with the SS runic lightning bolts, thus they're known as Nazi typewriters.

Inline Image:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/470229657_4439e1bf63.jpg?v=0

The things are worth a ton of money, now.

...wish I had one.

I didn't check out the game. Is it something like Monopoly? Do not pass got, do not collect $200, do not escape?