[casual_games] slamdance competition

[Jeff Murray]

And you know what? Unless you named it after a true to life event, I'm
pretty sure that you'd be ok to submit either game idea to slamdance
without getting it getting pulled ;)

 

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From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Olmert, Shaul
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:41 PM
To: IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [casual_games] slamdance competition

 

This is an appropriate context to reveal the game concept I had in mind
for a while: "Sweatshop tycoon"- a game that challenges you to maximize
manufacturing while abusing a huge staff of under aged employees.

 

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From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of John Szeder
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:34 PM
To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [casual_games] slamdance competition

My next game I make is going to be called:

 

"Knee jerk reaction consumer tycoon".

 

The idea behind the game is to play civilians in various ages of man,
starting in the dark ages and find ideas and people to get indignant
about and try to persecute them!

 

Marketing points:

            Shout loudly and throw stones at Jesus as he carries his
cross to the top of the hill!

Participate in the excommunication of Galileo due to his heretical
views!

Write letters to congressmen and stage protests at stores carrying
"dungeons and dragons" games in the early 1970's!

File lawsuits against "Judas Priest" in the mid 1980's for the joint
suicide of teens!

Join usenet flamewars over topics you have not fully researched in the
early 1990's!

 

Then again, I don't think anyone will get the game, controversy is too
new. Back to work.

 

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From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Tom Hubina
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 10:27 AM
To: 'IGDA Casual Games SIG Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [casual_games] slamdance competition

 

I just read that wikipedia page and when I heard what his school life
was like and how he went on a killing spree with that seemingly being
what changed him so dramatically and probably combined with some bad
wiring in his head led to him going on a killing spree .. It just sounds
all too familiar.

 

I'm surprised the nimrods of the day didn't blame James Dean for
Charles' actions. After all, they didn't have video games back then.
*sigh*

 

Tom

 

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From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org
[mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Allen Varney
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:16 AM
To: casual_games at igda.org
Subject: Re: [casual_games] slamdance competition

 

Jeff Murray wrote:
  (((If you don't believe that, then try and find the last *true-story*
movie with a shock title like this, that won awards from a respected
organization. Oh what do you say? There aren't any? What a surprise. Was
Natural Born Killers a true story? I don't think so.))) 

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather

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