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[-] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 92 points 10 months ago

Oof... Man, to live in the US. I don't envy you guys, though things aren't really going the right direction here in the Netherlands, either.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 63 points 10 months ago

I can't wait to see speed runners cheese it and completely miss its point :/

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 66 points 10 months ago

TBF, generally speedrunners start speedrunning games because they love it to death (ie. have played it through several times already) and want to start challenging themselves in new ways.

[-] alessandro@lemmy.ca 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.

Anyway, this don't undermine the intention of the developer.

[-] GreyCat@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Speedrunning isn't THAT popular. If you want to chase trends there are much easier ways other than spending thousands of hours on a single game to have low chances of make a record.

[-] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

A videogame making views on YouTube is only incentive for first playthroughs as views on YouTube are usually for people's reactions to stuff. Speedrunning really usually is a passion project.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I get that, but on the more aggressively short cut games, you could argue its not the same game anymore if all the story is now skipped. Still entertaining to watch, and I do occasionally, but it can get a bit silly.

I'm still looking forward to the first:

"Hi guys, today I'm going to show you how the locker skip works, you just run at this locker while tapping crouch, annddddd we are clipped through the ground, and can now run to the exit. Easy game"

:D

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 13 points 10 months ago

any% with glitches is pretty much always a wild ride to watch.

on that note; man I need to get back on the IGN's playlist of "devs react to speedruns", most devs are such good sport when it comes to breaking their game :D

[-] Djehngo@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

? Why come up with a hypothetical outcome just to make yourself mad? Is there some trend of speedrunners ruining educational games I am missing?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

Its a joke, relax. Almost all games get speed run, no reason to expect this to be different. And any% speed runs often skip huge portions of the story, no reason to expect this to be any different either. There is nothing to be mad at, it'll likely happen, it'll likely be silly/funny to watch.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

The :/ face doesn't help it seem like a joke. It reads like you're genuinely upset about people misunderstanding art.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

Text is a bad medium for conveying emotion.

To me, :/ has always been a fairly neutral expression, like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or 😐, I would have used :( to convey upset, but its certainly reasonable that others would read it differently.

I kinda hoped my other comments would have made it clearer, but again, text is a bad medium :( oh well

[-] Volume@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago

It sound like most didn't read the article. You aren't playing as the shooter, it is a horror game where you are the victim trying to escape and/or hide from the shooter.

[-] Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 28 points 10 months ago

I haven't read the article, probably won't, doesn't really interest me. But I thought the title pretty clearly implies you don't play as the shooter. I'm surprised others didn't interpret the same way.

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 32 points 10 months ago

No parent should go through what they have gone through. And they want to express that through a game. It is an incredible idea, especially because of interactivity of the medium. I always believe that art can help hold a mirror to the society and this game proves that.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

This... Is special kind of stupid lol

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 55 points 10 months ago

You play as a victim running from the shooter though.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

It's a 10 minute game, that at the end of it tries to convince the player to vote on new gun laws. Who is this targeting? Gamers that are into horror/terror games have played plethora of great games in that genre, have a hard time believing they'd even care to download the game for those 10 minutes.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 23 points 10 months ago

it's an awareness tool, we're talking about the game right now, people will play it on streams, dumb reactionaries will say stupid shit about it, and we'll be talking about gun control bills all the while.

It's like a PSA or political campaign ad, but interactive and intended to be viral.

It's not trying to win game awards or start a video game franchise

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 22 points 10 months ago

Well at least they tried giving people an experience of a school shooter, not just sitting on their arse commenting on the Internet.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

I know a lot of gamers who would be interested in a 10 minute game. Obviously not for $60.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

They can do a new map DLC for every major shooting, that'd start to get the point across when there are hours of content.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Why? It sounds like haunting experience from what I've read

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Uhm, Columbine RPG anyone?

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

uh no, i think the point would be that it's a scary game. This isn't a fucking beavis bacon teaches you typing simulator game.

[-] Fox@pawb.social 5 points 10 months ago

Beavis teaches typing would probably be a riot

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

that would most certainly make for an interesting experience.

nice instance btw

[-] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

From the trailer and article this looks and sounds well done. It reminds me of Amnesia, at least in that type of psychological horror.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

This game makes me SMILE because it SHOWS me that TRANS KIDS EXISTING are WORSE then LITERALLY BEING GUNNED DOWN!

-Pro Life Republicans trying to Protect The Children!

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