I will be addressing everyone by their birth names and by they/them. I do not care.
(Spoilers)
First of all, I would like to say that I do not believe the whole LGBTQ+ stuff. I just don't, but this does not stop me from playing and reviewing a game. Before I get into the more "disgusting" aspect of my review I would like to mention that the game goes to a blank black screen after Saoirse talks with the boss in the browser version. Anyway, to what I hate about the game now.
In the beginning, we obviously get told James is a 'Faggot' and stuff by just white people forcing us to side with James. (No one should get bullied for their beliefs so I understand why the game does this.) However, I find this part is rather racist as it is just white people who do the bullying here. Whether the game is telling us it is the 'Norm' to be white, cis, hetero people I am unsure, but that is what I take it as. I also take it that other races have never done this before. (Racist because it is forcing stereotypes.) Also, James' partner is disgusting. Especially what they said at the start, it is really rather toxic. It does not matter what happens in the end. Someone can't change in a day much less 2 hours.
Going through the story you come to find out James 'Identifies' as trans, that's why everyone in the office is 'Disgusted' by them. This is not accurate to real life whatsoever. You may experience one or two co-workers but a lot of people will try and support you and make you feel happy even if they don't believe in what you do. (Ask a Trans person and they'll say this happened even though what happened was they were called their birth name. *Shrug*) I have never once excluded my friends even though they identified that way. (And I am someone people still call transphobic and homophobic and a white cunt. LOL)
The only people in the story who are helpful and nice are the people who go against 'Society's Norms' and these people include; (I forgot their names so I'll go by appearances.) A darker-skinned female, a glasses girl with red hair who is short and a tall girl with long straight black hair. (Although the last one wasn't very nice either.)
Something odd I found is that if you try to talk to the darker-skinned female the dialogue is. "I shouldn't touch her she is ticklish." You shouldn't touch her in general TF?!
Anyway, you can call me transphobic or whatever, I'm very used to it by now sadly. People frown upon other people with varying opinions.
Your statement on not “believing” in “LGBTQ+ stuff” is completely pointless and vague to the extent that it can scarcely even be reckoned with due to its lack of any coherent meaning.
Your interpretation on the presence of racism also merits little recognition as you present no tangible evidence to explicitly prove that your claims are correct or even probable. You simply observed a detail within the game and then imagined an inflammatory meaning behind it, yet you present no evidence to actually substantiate your belief. There is nothing here to debunk as your claim bears no objective substance that could be debunked. It is merely you asserting a baseless theory that hinges entirely on your biased interpretations, along with a wilful lack of acknowledgement for other possibilities.
Your claim of the game content not being “accurate to real life” is just as contrived. The game does not explicitly state its exact intention or context with regard to life itself, thus it makes no definitive claims that you could actually refute in terms of accuracy. You then assert that you know the exact workplace experiences of all transgender individuals everywhere at all times, thus giving you the credibility to state what those experiences definitively are. Yet this is a virtually impossible claim that you could not feasibly know without some form of supernatural insight. You put absolutely zero effort into proving such a massive claim as being true, and so it can be discarded as false with zero effort in turn.
You then conclude with another completely baseless and now irrelevant assertion of meaning, this time with regard to the characters themselves, which yet again you could not possibly know. Nor do you provide any explicit proof that such an interpretation is likely or even plausible at all, once again.
Your argumentation exclusively depends on you imagining insidious meanings to criticize, which is highlighted by your inability to actually present a single scrap of tangible evidence in support of your biased interpretations. From this alone it would be difficult to label you as “transphobic” when your vacuous rhetoric telegraphs little coherent information beyond sheer intellectual dishonesty, or outright bait.
Yet while you attempt to slander this free browser game, which is largely about raising awareness for the suffering of other individuals, you still find time to frame yourself as the solemn victim in this interaction. The manner in which you reference the vague concept of having an opinion heavily implies that you are purposely obfuscating the facts at play in your own experiences, just to make yourself seem innocent.
From what we can gather here; perhaps if you did not insist on developing pointlessly volatile and divisive beliefs about the personal identities of other people, then more of them might find you tolerable.
This is my opinion as stated. It's like a steam review.
First of all I do provide proof and evidence for the racism , you even admit this yourself before you say I don't so you're backtracking. Secondly, I'm Bi and face mental disorders myself so I have every right to have a stance on this. Thirdly, big words don't make you special, also please don't repeat sentences it adds nothing to your opinion. (I hate using numbers) "The game does not explicitly state its exact intention or context with regard to life itself" It does, that's why the game was made, because of the author's political beliefs. That's how every creative piece is made. Also you saying this is like saying WILLIAM AFTON DIDN'T KILL CHILDREN IT WAS NEVER EXPLICITLY SHOWN! :O "You know exact workplace experiences of all transgender individuals everywhere at all times" I don't, I never said that. I went off of statistics. I watch many trans YouTubers like Blaire White and The offensive tranny who provides my statistics. "which is largely about raising awareness for the suffering of other individuals" Backtracking again. "you still find time to frame yourself as the solemn victim in this interaction." Never did, I was expressing my opinion on why it is a bad game. If you post something on the internet, expect to receive opinions.
Who is "Our" As a member of the LGT and someone with very sad bwain I am not in your "Our". Blaire White would hate this so she wouldn't be in your "Our". So you are mostly referring to yourself. Bit lonely eh.
Anyway, don't hate my opinion with no actual evidence such a quoting my comment, which you did not do. I accept opinions on which you should also but you didnt provide evidence. Anyway seeya, have a nice day.
From our perspective we are well aware that it is your opinion, repeating this notion does not magically make your statements any more sensible; it only reinforces your clear inability to make objective arguments. As with claiming you are "Bi" and face "mental disorders" this also does not make your incoherent claims any more credible, nor does it make you seem more sympathetic. At no point did we claim that you have no "right" to a stance on this, you appear to be manufacturing a narrative of innocence and victimization; again.
No your post is not "like" a Steam review as your post was not even a review. It does not outline or elaborate on your personal experience and critical views of the work, it is simply a select analysis of certain concepts featured in the game and how you interpreted them. That is not a review of the game as you were not reviewing the game, you were at best just sharing your unsubstantiated theories on certain parts of it.
And once again we will explain that you did not present any proof or evidence that there is a discriminatory slant to this game. The majority of employees having pale skin is itself an innocuous detail, there are a variety of reasons why that detail could exist; one of which is mere happenstance. Your explicit assertion that discrimination is the source of this detail requires evidence; which you provide none of.
If we are repeating ourselves it is because your rhetoric is so fallacious that repetition seems prudent to ensure our point comes across. We are not particularly aware of which "big words" we are using as this is our typical vocabulary, and your notion of a "big word" is completely undefined, however the completely unnecessary ad hominem is recognized.
The functional purpose of you claiming that our game is inaccurate to life necessitates the implication that our game would or could be accurate to life. Our game makes no explicit assertions on how it correlates to life thus there is no claim of accuracy that you could refute, rendering your statement without any critical foundation. The only other conceivable purpose of said statement is you wanting to assure any readers that what this game depicts could absolutely never happen in life; because denying any possibility that transgender individuals suffer in this regard is, for some reason, important to you. So either your statement was completely inane and pointless, or it was made with the insidious motive of denying the potential suffering of others.
You did indeed claim to know the exact workplace experiences of all transgender individuals, as you made an explicit statement about what their experiences would be; with no doubt or disclaimers of any kind attached. You outlined one exact possibility as being the fundamental only possibility which was thus meant to refute what is depicted in our game. Your statement being sourced from random individuals on Youtube along with vague, undefined "statistics" does not make it sound any more credible; especially as we know with near absolute certainty that your statement was false. We highly doubt that you have a statistic which proves all transgender individuals everywhere at all times are having the exact same neutral workplace experience which therefore makes the story in our game completely inapplicable to life. Such absolute information could not exist without supernatural insight into reality itself and we have zero reason to assume that you or some random individuals on Youtube could magically attain that. Your entire point is irrelevant to begin with as the concepts at play in our story can be applied to far more situations than just a workplace.
And you did attempt to frame yourself as a victim, your final statement was a direct appeal to sympathy. It served zero purpose other than to bemoan your own life experiences and shield your beliefs as merely being an "opinion" which you supposedly experience duress for simply having. Thus depicting you as some kind of victim in all this, due to the negative consequences you claim to suffer due to your purposely undefined opinions. So you simultaneously want to make corrupt and impractical statements to distort the perception of others in your favour while denying the sole purpose of those statements once they are analyzed.
Our perspective is our perspective, the perspective of Portrait Prophecies. It seems you misunderstood the implication of this phrasing. That flimsy ad hominem of depicting us as "lonely" due to your own false assumption is amusing in hindsight however.
You now appear to be projecting your own lack of evidence onto us at this point. All three of your original acknowledged claims were made without any source of evidence to support your two interpretations of our work, and your one assertion of what is accurate to life. As we previously stated, and as we will now reiterate yet again, you put absolutely zero effort into proving such claims as being true; and so they can be discarded as false with zero effort in turn. You cannot logically make such baseless statements and then demand the other side provides evidence to disprove them. The burden of proof lies on you as the one making claims to begin with.
This conversation is highly inefficient as it takes far less time for you to make your vacuous statements than it does for us to respectably and clearly debunk them, especially when so many of your beliefs hinge on you not understanding how certain things conceptually function. It is blatantly evident from your own callous remarks and references that you are biased against transgender individuals to some extent. You made an entire account just to post baseless claims of discrimination and inaccuracy on a game about the suffering of a transgender individual. Furthermore both of the individuals on Youtube you cited as references seem to be obsessed with deriding transgender individuals and other arbitrary groups, which can be discovered from simply looking at their video pages which are drowning in malicious and divisive content. From this we can theorize that you were probably offended by the existence of a game which contradicts your delusional biases, and so you desperately cobbled together a slanderous post to levy against it.
But regardless. The irony is that in doing such you have brought this old game to our attention while we were between projects, and so we now plan to release a new update further enhancing the experience so that it aligns with our modern standard of writing.
Also. Your irrelevant and snide remarks against us, as well as your slanderous assertions about our work which you refuse to even substantiate, have together earned you a ban from posting here again. At least with that specific account.
This response adds nothing honestly, as well as blocking me so I couldn't reply is a childish move. As a "game studio" you need to be able to accept criticism even if it is from the opposite party or someone who doesn't agree with you. I provided evidence as to why this game is bad, whether you improve on it or not is up to you. Please don't be childish.
You were banned because of your refusal to engage in a practical discussion, instead favouring snide remarks and unsubstantiated claims. Attempting to label us as "childish" for not tolerating your unconstructive behaviour is yet again reminiscent of projection.
Your original comment did not contain any actionable criticism, it was mainly you giving your own personal interpretation of certain elements present in the game. None of your statements were accompanied by proof to actually substantiate them as being plausible interpretations ahead of any alternative, non-inflammatory explanation; hence why we responded to dispel your misrepresentation of our work. Yet now you are attempting to frame your clearly biased behaviour as innocent under the guise of sincere criticism, a predictable adaptation in this disingenuous rhetoric.
It is also interesting that right after you made another account to respond to us, all of your previous comments received a (+1) except for the one you posted on that new account. It almost seems as if you gave those positive votes to yourself, in addition to all the negative votes our comments have received each time you respond, although that could just be a coincidence of course.
Regardless your refusal to acknowledge the vast majority of our previous response, or defend yourself against our counterpoints in any constructive way, makes it quite clear that you have no intention of engaging in an honest discussion at all. Thus there is no reason to continue arguing against your stance as you have failed to provide any coherent points that would merit serious recognition.
Even though I'm within the trans umbrella(genderfluid), I don't personally experience abuse regarding my identity (most likely because I'm not very public about it irl). However, I used to experience harrassement based on my body anyway (mild physical , s*xual verbal, then verbal fat-shaming). I only no longer experience that because I've mentally broke and I'm currently a shut-in, trying to piece myself back together. That piece of background being said, this game's protrayal of emotions was PAINFULLy accurate, in a good way. The visual represenation with the red-tint and the square was so impactful and resonated so much.
As a game maker, you have SO MUCH potential, and you are very underrated. However, one thing that I've noticed in your games, is that they are a bit difficult to progress. One reason being that, there is no indication between the black cutscene/scene change, and the actual ending. Another reason being, (not in this but some of your other games), It can be a bit difficult to understand what to do. Some hints, maybe after a while, would be helpful.
theres something super eerie and unsettling about all of the smiling coworkers hurling disgusting abuse at you, its honestly more scarier than when they start frowning.
As a trans person (tho I'm female to male) this is heartbreaking, and I hate that this is the reality that we live in.... I really felt for Jamie, I can't comprehend the thought process of transphobes...
a wonderful game to make you feel the worst of things! but fr amazing game, i just wish it didn't seem so realistic, like i had to google to make sure this wasnt based off a real event
Me and the homies at work :') I didn't know this was about transphobia and I was like "Oh this hits so close to home" Really good game and related way too much to it...
I feel so bad... One, this game is beautiful and heart-wrenching. Two, I wanted to know what happened when Jamie died because I'm apparently a sadistic a-hole, and then I killed her over and over until I couldn't pick the paper up anymore. I feel dirty for doing it... But I love Jamie, she's awesome, and I wish she didn't die a million times. Not just in this game, I mean I wish that she didn't die in Smiles Incorporated and in this game, and probably in WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGHS. She is amazing as a character, and I hated torturing her.
this hits so hard !! it makes me so mad bc i know these exact same experiences do still happen to people in this day and age. thank you for making this game and depicting a realistic simulation, hopefully someone out there will think twice before alienating others to boost their fragile egos
This is a powerful story, but it is also an incredibly intense game -- I think it could definitely use more specific content warnings than it has for anti-trans harassment and violence, as well as for its very vivid depiction of anxiety.
This was such a powerful game with a very important message. The art style was simple and fit perfectly to this theme. One thing I noticed while playing was that when you talked to people, it took a really long time for the message to pop up and then you had to wait for quite a while until it disappeared. Maybe one way to do this would be to change so that the player could press on, for example, enter so they could decide how fast they wanted to read through the conversations? :)
Other than that I really enjoyed this game, keep up the good work! :D
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I will be addressing everyone by their birth names and by they/them. I do not care.
(Spoilers)
First of all, I would like to say that I do not believe the whole LGBTQ+ stuff. I just don't, but this does not stop me from playing and reviewing a game. Before I get into the more "disgusting" aspect of my review I would like to mention that the game goes to a blank black screen after Saoirse talks with the boss in the browser version. Anyway, to what I hate about the game now.
In the beginning, we obviously get told James is a 'Faggot' and stuff by just white people forcing us to side with James. (No one should get bullied for their beliefs so I understand why the game does this.) However, I find this part is rather racist as it is just white people who do the bullying here. Whether the game is telling us it is the 'Norm' to be white, cis, hetero people I am unsure, but that is what I take it as. I also take it that other races have never done this before. (Racist because it is forcing stereotypes.) Also, James' partner is disgusting. Especially what they said at the start, it is really rather toxic. It does not matter what happens in the end. Someone can't change in a day much less 2 hours.
Going through the story you come to find out James 'Identifies' as trans, that's why everyone in the office is 'Disgusted' by them. This is not accurate to real life whatsoever. You may experience one or two co-workers but a lot of people will try and support you and make you feel happy even if they don't believe in what you do. (Ask a Trans person and they'll say this happened even though what happened was they were called their birth name. *Shrug*) I have never once excluded my friends even though they identified that way. (And I am someone people still call transphobic and homophobic and a white cunt. LOL)
The only people in the story who are helpful and nice are the people who go against 'Society's Norms' and these people include; (I forgot their names so I'll go by appearances.) A darker-skinned female, a glasses girl with red hair who is short and a tall girl with long straight black hair. (Although the last one wasn't very nice either.)
Something odd I found is that if you try to talk to the darker-skinned female the dialogue is. "I shouldn't touch her she is ticklish." You shouldn't touch her in general TF?!
Anyway, you can call me transphobic or whatever, I'm very used to it by now sadly. People frown upon other people with varying opinions.
Well, from our point of view:
Your statement on not “believing” in “LGBTQ+ stuff” is completely pointless and vague to the extent that it can scarcely even be reckoned with due to its lack of any coherent meaning.
Your interpretation on the presence of racism also merits little recognition as you present no tangible evidence to explicitly prove that your claims are correct or even probable. You simply observed a detail within the game and then imagined an inflammatory meaning behind it, yet you present no evidence to actually substantiate your belief. There is nothing here to debunk as your claim bears no objective substance that could be debunked. It is merely you asserting a baseless theory that hinges entirely on your biased interpretations, along with a wilful lack of acknowledgement for other possibilities.
Your claim of the game content not being “accurate to real life” is just as contrived. The game does not explicitly state its exact intention or context with regard to life itself, thus it makes no definitive claims that you could actually refute in terms of accuracy. You then assert that you know the exact workplace experiences of all transgender individuals everywhere at all times, thus giving you the credibility to state what those experiences definitively are. Yet this is a virtually impossible claim that you could not feasibly know without some form of supernatural insight. You put absolutely zero effort into proving such a massive claim as being true, and so it can be discarded as false with zero effort in turn.
You then conclude with another completely baseless and now irrelevant assertion of meaning, this time with regard to the characters themselves, which yet again you could not possibly know. Nor do you provide any explicit proof that such an interpretation is likely or even plausible at all, once again.
Your argumentation exclusively depends on you imagining insidious meanings to criticize, which is highlighted by your inability to actually present a single scrap of tangible evidence in support of your biased interpretations. From this alone it would be difficult to label you as “transphobic” when your vacuous rhetoric telegraphs little coherent information beyond sheer intellectual dishonesty, or outright bait.
Yet while you attempt to slander this free browser game, which is largely about raising awareness for the suffering of other individuals, you still find time to frame yourself as the solemn victim in this interaction. The manner in which you reference the vague concept of having an opinion heavily implies that you are purposely obfuscating the facts at play in your own experiences, just to make yourself seem innocent.
From what we can gather here; perhaps if you did not insist on developing pointlessly volatile and divisive beliefs about the personal identities of other people, then more of them might find you tolerable.
From our perspective.
This is my opinion as stated. It's like a steam review.
First of all I do provide proof and evidence for the racism , you even admit this yourself before you say I don't so you're backtracking. Secondly, I'm Bi and face mental disorders myself so I have every right to have a stance on this. Thirdly, big words don't make you special, also please don't repeat sentences it adds nothing to your opinion. (I hate using numbers) "The game does not explicitly state its exact intention or context with regard to life itself" It does, that's why the game was made, because of the author's political beliefs. That's how every creative piece is made. Also you saying this is like saying WILLIAM AFTON DIDN'T KILL CHILDREN IT WAS NEVER EXPLICITLY SHOWN! :O "You know exact workplace experiences of all transgender individuals everywhere at all times" I don't, I never said that. I went off of statistics. I watch many trans YouTubers like Blaire White and The offensive tranny who provides my statistics. "which is largely about raising awareness for the suffering of other individuals" Backtracking again. "you still find time to frame yourself as the solemn victim in this interaction." Never did, I was expressing my opinion on why it is a bad game. If you post something on the internet, expect to receive opinions.
Who is "Our" As a member of the LGT and someone with very sad bwain I am not in your "Our". Blaire White would hate this so she wouldn't be in your "Our". So you are mostly referring to yourself. Bit lonely eh.
Anyway, don't hate my opinion with no actual evidence such a quoting my comment, which you did not do. I accept opinions on which you should also but you didnt provide evidence. Anyway seeya, have a nice day.
From our perspective we are well aware that it is your opinion, repeating this notion does not magically make your statements any more sensible; it only reinforces your clear inability to make objective arguments. As with claiming you are "Bi" and face "mental disorders" this also does not make your incoherent claims any more credible, nor does it make you seem more sympathetic. At no point did we claim that you have no "right" to a stance on this, you appear to be manufacturing a narrative of innocence and victimization; again.
No your post is not "like" a Steam review as your post was not even a review. It does not outline or elaborate on your personal experience and critical views of the work, it is simply a select analysis of certain concepts featured in the game and how you interpreted them. That is not a review of the game as you were not reviewing the game, you were at best just sharing your unsubstantiated theories on certain parts of it.
And once again we will explain that you did not present any proof or evidence that there is a discriminatory slant to this game. The majority of employees having pale skin is itself an innocuous detail, there are a variety of reasons why that detail could exist; one of which is mere happenstance. Your explicit assertion that discrimination is the source of this detail requires evidence; which you provide none of.
If we are repeating ourselves it is because your rhetoric is so fallacious that repetition seems prudent to ensure our point comes across. We are not particularly aware of which "big words" we are using as this is our typical vocabulary, and your notion of a "big word" is completely undefined, however the completely unnecessary ad hominem is recognized.
The functional purpose of you claiming that our game is inaccurate to life necessitates the implication that our game would or could be accurate to life. Our game makes no explicit assertions on how it correlates to life thus there is no claim of accuracy that you could refute, rendering your statement without any critical foundation. The only other conceivable purpose of said statement is you wanting to assure any readers that what this game depicts could absolutely never happen in life; because denying any possibility that transgender individuals suffer in this regard is, for some reason, important to you. So either your statement was completely inane and pointless, or it was made with the insidious motive of denying the potential suffering of others.
You did indeed claim to know the exact workplace experiences of all transgender individuals, as you made an explicit statement about what their experiences would be; with no doubt or disclaimers of any kind attached. You outlined one exact possibility as being the fundamental only possibility which was thus meant to refute what is depicted in our game. Your statement being sourced from random individuals on Youtube along with vague, undefined "statistics" does not make it sound any more credible; especially as we know with near absolute certainty that your statement was false. We highly doubt that you have a statistic which proves all transgender individuals everywhere at all times are having the exact same neutral workplace experience which therefore makes the story in our game completely inapplicable to life. Such absolute information could not exist without supernatural insight into reality itself and we have zero reason to assume that you or some random individuals on Youtube could magically attain that. Your entire point is irrelevant to begin with as the concepts at play in our story can be applied to far more situations than just a workplace.
And you did attempt to frame yourself as a victim, your final statement was a direct appeal to sympathy. It served zero purpose other than to bemoan your own life experiences and shield your beliefs as merely being an "opinion" which you supposedly experience duress for simply having. Thus depicting you as some kind of victim in all this, due to the negative consequences you claim to suffer due to your purposely undefined opinions. So you simultaneously want to make corrupt and impractical statements to distort the perception of others in your favour while denying the sole purpose of those statements once they are analyzed.
Our perspective is our perspective, the perspective of Portrait Prophecies. It seems you misunderstood the implication of this phrasing. That flimsy ad hominem of depicting us as "lonely" due to your own false assumption is amusing in hindsight however.
You now appear to be projecting your own lack of evidence onto us at this point. All three of your original acknowledged claims were made without any source of evidence to support your two interpretations of our work, and your one assertion of what is accurate to life. As we previously stated, and as we will now reiterate yet again, you put absolutely zero effort into proving such claims as being true; and so they can be discarded as false with zero effort in turn. You cannot logically make such baseless statements and then demand the other side provides evidence to disprove them. The burden of proof lies on you as the one making claims to begin with.
This conversation is highly inefficient as it takes far less time for you to make your vacuous statements than it does for us to respectably and clearly debunk them, especially when so many of your beliefs hinge on you not understanding how certain things conceptually function. It is blatantly evident from your own callous remarks and references that you are biased against transgender individuals to some extent. You made an entire account just to post baseless claims of discrimination and inaccuracy on a game about the suffering of a transgender individual. Furthermore both of the individuals on Youtube you cited as references seem to be obsessed with deriding transgender individuals and other arbitrary groups, which can be discovered from simply looking at their video pages which are drowning in malicious and divisive content. From this we can theorize that you were probably offended by the existence of a game which contradicts your delusional biases, and so you desperately cobbled together a slanderous post to levy against it.
But regardless. The irony is that in doing such you have brought this old game to our attention while we were between projects, and so we now plan to release a new update further enhancing the experience so that it aligns with our modern standard of writing. Also. Your irrelevant and snide remarks against us, as well as your slanderous assertions about our work which you refuse to even substantiate, have together earned you a ban from posting here again. At least with that specific account.
This response adds nothing honestly, as well as blocking me so I couldn't reply is a childish move. As a "game studio" you need to be able to accept criticism even if it is from the opposite party or someone who doesn't agree with you. I provided evidence as to why this game is bad, whether you improve on it or not is up to you. Please don't be childish.
You were banned because of your refusal to engage in a practical discussion, instead favouring snide remarks and unsubstantiated claims. Attempting to label us as "childish" for not tolerating your unconstructive behaviour is yet again reminiscent of projection.
Your original comment did not contain any actionable criticism, it was mainly you giving your own personal interpretation of certain elements present in the game. None of your statements were accompanied by proof to actually substantiate them as being plausible interpretations ahead of any alternative, non-inflammatory explanation; hence why we responded to dispel your misrepresentation of our work. Yet now you are attempting to frame your clearly biased behaviour as innocent under the guise of sincere criticism, a predictable adaptation in this disingenuous rhetoric.
It is also interesting that right after you made another account to respond to us, all of your previous comments received a (+1) except for the one you posted on that new account. It almost seems as if you gave those positive votes to yourself, in addition to all the negative votes our comments have received each time you respond, although that could just be a coincidence of course.
Regardless your refusal to acknowledge the vast majority of our previous response, or defend yourself against our counterpoints in any constructive way, makes it quite clear that you have no intention of engaging in an honest discussion at all. Thus there is no reason to continue arguing against your stance as you have failed to provide any coherent points that would merit serious recognition.
i have nothing to say, this made me cry
Even though I'm within the trans umbrella(genderfluid), I don't personally experience abuse regarding my identity (most likely because I'm not very public about it irl). However, I used to experience harrassement based on my body anyway (mild physical , s*xual verbal, then verbal fat-shaming). I only no longer experience that because I've mentally broke and I'm currently a shut-in, trying to piece myself back together. That piece of background being said, this game's protrayal of emotions was PAINFULLy accurate, in a good way. The visual represenation with the red-tint and the square was so impactful and resonated so much.
As a game maker, you have SO MUCH potential, and you are very underrated. However, one thing that I've noticed in your games, is that they are a bit difficult to progress. One reason being that, there is no indication between the black cutscene/scene change, and the actual ending. Another reason being, (not in this but some of your other games), It can be a bit difficult to understand what to do. Some hints, maybe after a while, would be helpful.
HOLY CRAP
theres something super eerie and unsettling about all of the smiling coworkers hurling disgusting abuse at you, its honestly more scarier than when they start frowning.
this is fucking messed up...
The tags say the game has multiple endings, but I only found one.
this game is so lovely and intense. I really don't have any words, its just so good.
As a trans person (tho I'm female to male) this is heartbreaking, and I hate that this is the reality that we live in.... I really felt for Jamie, I can't comprehend the thought process of transphobes...
personally, i'm not a transgender person...vbut man does this hurt. i wish i could give all the trans homies a hug.
a wonderful game to make you feel the worst of things! but fr amazing game, i just wish it didn't seem so realistic, like i had to google to make sure this wasnt based off a real event
Me and the homies at work :') I didn't know this was about transphobia and I was like "Oh this hits so close to home" Really good game and related way too much to it...
I feel so bad... One, this game is beautiful and heart-wrenching. Two, I wanted to know what happened when Jamie died because I'm apparently a sadistic a-hole, and then I killed her over and over until I couldn't pick the paper up anymore. I feel dirty for doing it... But I love Jamie, she's awesome, and I wish she didn't die a million times. Not just in this game, I mean I wish that she didn't die in Smiles Incorporated and in this game, and probably in WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGHS. She is amazing as a character, and I hated torturing her.
this made me cry. Great Game
this hits so hard !! it makes me so mad bc i know these exact same experiences do still happen to people in this day and age. thank you for making this game and depicting a realistic simulation, hopefully someone out there will think twice before alienating others to boost their fragile egos
great game!
this game made me soooo mad
oh ok
ummm does this just end after sacrise gos to the boss or is there more
That is the end yes.
wow this is just so meloncoly sweet i cried
Wow.....that was intense.
I like your cover illustration. It's a concept I've seen before but taken a very different spin.
This is a powerful story, but it is also an incredibly intense game -- I think it could definitely use more specific content warnings than it has for anti-trans harassment and violence, as well as for its very vivid depiction of anxiety.
I think this is an excellent narrative on LGBTQIA+ discrimination in the workplace. I can't wait to see more of your work.
This was such a powerful game with a very important message. The art style was simple and fit perfectly to this theme. One thing I noticed while playing was that when you talked to people, it took a really long time for the message to pop up and then you had to wait for quite a while until it disappeared. Maybe one way to do this would be to change so that the player could press on, for example, enter so they could decide how fast they wanted to read through the conversations? :)
Other than that I really enjoyed this game, keep up the good work! :D
I don't know if you've heard of Game Development World Championship before (gdwc2019) but it's a competition for indie game developers where they can submit their games and it's free! It's great if you want some more visibility for the game and it only takes a couple of minutes to join :)