{"id":27064,"date":"2014-08-21T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/lets-ruin-video-games\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:33:07","slug":"lets-ruin-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/lets-ruin-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Ruin Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s Ruin Video Games<\/a><\/p>\n

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fakegirlgamer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My name is Arden, and after a few days of thinking I\u2019ve decided that I\u2019m going to ruin video games.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m going to be doing everything in my power to destroy them completely. Walking simulators about feelings and emotions as far as the eye can see! Guns that shoot kisses! Lady characters that aren\u2019t designed to cater to the whims of straight men! I\u2019m hiding loving queer couples in every treasure chest instead of new armor. Every game will now be required to have at least one section that can be described as \u201ctoo\u201d personal. Fuck, if I\u2019m feeling\u00a0really<\/em>\u00a0bold, I might even throw some non-white characters into a game or two! I\u2019ll magically replace every copy of every big-budget first person shooter with either Gone Home or Dear Esther and listen to the agitated shrieks of gamers.<\/p>\n

Non-men have been \u201cruining\u201d games for a long time, of course, by virtue of existing and trying to make the medium and the spaces around it more inclusive and less festering garbage. I\u2019m just owning up to it now, so there can be no doubt: I\u2019m here to ruin games. The space gamers have carved out is broken and vile, and I\u2019m done with it.\u00a0This is not their hobby anymore, it is our art.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m ruining video games! Join me! Make a personal story in Twine, nothing pisses gamers off more than interactive fiction sharing experiences that don\u2019t cater to them! Make something in RPG Maker! You don\u2019t even need to put combat in it! Make a dating sim or a visual novel in Ren\u2019Py! Ruining games is easy, I know you can do it too!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This Is Something I Can Get Behind\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Let’s Ruin Video Games misandrist-of-gor: ohcorny: fakegirlgamer: My name is Arden, and after a few days of thinking I\u2019ve decided that I\u2019m going to ruin video games. I\u2019m going to be doing everything in my power to destroy them completely. Walking simulators about feelings and emotions as far as the eye can see! Guns that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-72w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}