>kid suffers from terminal cancer
>parents immediately try to cash in on it by making a kickstarter walking simulator and selling it for 15 bucks
>pay us $500 and you can tell about YOUR dead kid in our game :^)
Am I just being a jaded motherfucker or is this the most pretentious and despicable thing "indie" gaming has ever produced?
That's fucking disgusting
>>322351483
Yeah, but this is pretty old news. Or did it pop back up for some reason?
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/godatplay/that-dragon-cancer/description
Look at this shit.
>>322351483
Why am I completely unsurprised by this.
>>322351763
Somehow I have completely missed it. The game is scheduled for release in 10 days.
>>322351483
>OUYA
>>322351483
Sounds like a great way to make money.
>>322352101
Same anon. If there's a market for it.
>>322351483
Reported for cancer
>>322352101
104k (not excluding kickstarter's take which is between 5-10% and other various taxes), 6 man team, over the course of 13 months
I don't think it's that great for American standards.
Would you guys not turn your dying kid in to a cash cow if you could? He's gonna be dead soon, might as well get something out of it.
I think you're being a bit overly jaded.
You could easily argue they are using this project as a coping mechanism.
>>322352436
Honestly, this is true.
>>322351483
It's only acceptable if they donate the profits to cancer research.
>The game is designed in the style of a 3d point-and-click adventure game, without the puzzles. The objective of the player is not to solve problems, but simply to be present in each moment.
zzz
>>322352436
I don't think that's what people have a problem with, if you could throw your dying kid into a grinder that prints money, I personally would feel much less disgusted. The problem is that they are presented as decent people.
>>322352394
Wrom what I've gathered: it was already funded by Ouya or a related company. They are using this kickstarter for PC version and to "include you in the story itself through backer rewards".
>>322351483
Resourceful but I despise anyone who thought that giving money to these delusional parents was a good idea
People might not understand metaphor. Better stick cancer right in the title.
>>322351483
Probably their way of dealing with it.
Also they live in a barbaric society where they have to pay to treat their child's cancer, so they probably have to get money anyway they can.
>>322352436
Problem is: they are not raising money for the kid or to, say, recover from a financial gut punch they had to endure before he died.
They are just using the dead babby as a marketing device for their project.
The fact that the game itself seems to lack any subtlety about the matter is pretty bad too.
>>322351763
it was just in the most recent issue of Wired
>>322352842
The kid's been dead since 2014 though.
>>322351483
There's a walking simulator dev in my city as well making a game inspired by his blind kid. The main dev also wears a totalbiscuit shirt.
>>322351483
cringy and desperate, but there's probably no ill intent
but look at the awards
>>322353000
Yeah, so they're probably bankrupt in addition to losing a kid.
>>322353000
The bills are probably still there.
>>322352916
Why would you lie on the internet like that?
>>322351483
I'd say its fine as long as they spend every last cent on trying to save their kid but by the looks of it the kids long gone and this is just sick profitteering.
>>322351483
>>322351763
I'm pretty sure the most disgusting part is that there's going to be an OUYA version.
>>322352842
>Also they live in a barbaric society where they have to pay to treat their child's cancer,
Fuck off eurotrash. Do you think healthcare (money) just grows on trees? If they're not paying for it then taxpayers have to.
>>322351483
>in association with Ouya
>>322353586
Yeah, everyone pays in, everyone benefits. Not a hard concept.
I want toKILLthe Ouya!
IHATEmy Ouya!
I want the Ouya to feelDEATH!
>>322353586
They're taxpayers too you idiot. Can't believe how cucked by your financial/social 'superiors' Americans are that they believe Universal Healthcare isn't beneficial to everybody.
Is Ouya even still around?
>>322353693
Well it makes sense, the game is about death
>>322353234
>>322353259
Well, I guess it's kind of true if you look at it from that perspective. Creating something to pay for those bills by proxy is way better than just begging for money...That is if those bills are actually there.
But, man, the game itself still so fucking tasteless.
>>322352436
Selling his intact organs would be more profitable.
I-I-I hope you enjoy this g-g-g-game guys!
W-w-w-we're trying to be more generous and c-c-c-caring to people and so w-w-w-wanted to help this project!
...Please buy me.
>>322354178
Nope, the controller alone was so broken it doomed the console.
>>322352807
IIRC the title is an allusion to the bible. The dude is a christhead or whatever you call it these days.
>>322353586
Yeah well, seeing that we have universal healthcare, free schools (that are actually good) and our infrasructure isn't crumbling, I'd say we are pretty well off. Not to mention that our minimum wages are a lot higher than ones in US and our workers actually have some protection from ultrajews,
Maybe you yanks should have a new civil war so you could draft a new constitution. The old one is quite dated you know and severely limits any real efforts to make US a better place.
When Americans finally realize their hegemony is over, it'll be so fun to watch.
>>322354624
You gon get taken home.
>ITT consolecucks mad because OUYA is getting exclusives
hope you kept the receipt
>>322351483
I mean if the kid died and they are dedicating the game to him, memorializing him or donating the money then it makes sense
If he isn't dead and it is going to helping his care it makes sense
Just because its about cancer doesn't mean they are always "cashing in".
>>322354770
It's funny, we have the same ideology as North Korea or any other fascist state. We're the best because we say we are, and we do have an impressive GDP, but that's about it.
>>322354770
>hegemony
i dont think you used that word correctly
>>322351483
Well, they're not going to get any future investment out of him. They're just recouping from the amount already invested in him
>>322355559
"Hegemony ... is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others."
I am using it correctly. Now that EU, China, India and Russia have been getting their shit together, the state of things are likely to change. But you can't dispute that USA had its hegemony after Cold War, even if it was short lived.
>>322356030
oh shit i totally misread. I just saw hegemony not "hegemony is over"
my bad, carry on.
Are they donating the proceeds to cancer research, or is the money going straight into their wallets?
If the former, then it's not a bad idea.
>>322351483
You realize that cancer treatments cost a shit ton of money in America right? I might be wrong but I don't think they're trying to "cash in on it."
>>322351483
>OUYA
>>322356440
kids dead already
>>322353586
>Everyone pitches in a little and therefor the few unlucky ones won't have their lives completely ruined
I know how it works, my freedom friend
>>322355201
s-sauce?
>>322354770
>When Americans finally realize their hegemony is over, it'll be so fun to watch.
We can survive without you, but you cannot survive without us.
If we go quietly into the night, Brazil, China, Russia, India, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt will make a rave out of the dawn. Brebare your angus. :DDDDD
>>322351483
I hate video games.
>>322354770
Your country is the size of one US state and the population equal to one US city.
Come back when you're one of the big boys, okay you cute widdle thing you?
>>322354770
Yeah. We Americans have this really funny notion that you should fend for yourself like an adult. Not stay some perpetual child for all of your life with government becoming your new mommy and daddy.
>>322357531
>Not stay some perpetual child for all of your life with government becoming your new mommy and daddy.
Unless you're a corporation. In that case suckling on the government teat forever is A-OK!
>>322356853
Eska Korra Sunset Riders on paheal
>>322357673
the government sucks on corporation teat
>>322356914
Seconding this
>>322357827
When was the last time a corporation bailed out the Government?
Are you fags really crying over someone making a game to raise money for a charity?
>>322356759
>as soon as someone dies all loans and debt related to them disappear
>>322358049
When Rockefeller bailed out the United states government during the panic of 1907.
>Not knowing the history of your overlords like a good yurocuk
>>322358223
>>Not knowing the history of your overlords
But I do know Chinese history.
>>322351483
the only way this is redeemable is if they donate it.
Might have made in okay short film or something. Getting tired of the over abundance of "emotional experiences" in vidya.
Don't get me wrong I think there is a place for them but seems like everyone and their cat is trying to cash in on the trend right now.
>>322357531
"Everyone for themselves" is much more childish than collaborating for the benefit of everyone. Literally what society is based on.
>>322353851
this desu senpai
should use this song for the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXaXO-PaGII
>>322351483
It's only human.
>>322354770
>live in UK
>can't own cutlery
>can't own a tv without a license
>can't take pictures of copyrighted objects
>can get arrested for twitter posts
>CCTV cameras every five meters
>native population is inbred and dwindling
>accept hundreds of thousands of migrants
>literally bend over backwards to cater to foreign cultures
>crime has increased tenfold over the years
>let rapists walk free because they're brown
>"A-AT LEAST WE HAVE PUBLICLY FUNDED HEALTHCARE"
>meanwhile still importing more and more migrants and YOU get to pay for them!
at least you aren't a dumb ol amerifat, right? dohoho
>>322352916
it was in wired like 3 years ago
>>322358893
Why do you care about CCTV cameras when you carry a government tracking device in your pocket, at all times?
>>322351483
>$4,000 pledge
>yeah dude you can put a dog in our game, our kid would love that lol
>someone backed it
>>322358893
Yeah I guess dying is betterif you live in the US
>>322359079
>implying i use the mobile jew
i buy prepaid cell phones off a street vendor every day, NSA aint got shit on me
>>322358893
>Europe = the UK
American education everyone, lmao.
To all the burgers IT: it's not like free healthcate is actually FREE, it's paid through taxes; if you have the shekels and want to you can go to a private clinic. Difference is that hospitals don't throw you on the street to die if you have no insurance.
So no need to be butthurt, everyone knows healthcare is a big issue in murrica.
>>322359259
i literally would rather die than live under an oppressive tyrannical regime. and this mindset is the reason why the united states even exists in the first place.
>>322359330
Who do you think that vendor works for man? You gotta look underneath the underneath.
>>322351483
>cancer
>in association with Ouya
Heh.
>>322359434
who outside of the UK unironically calls americans "yanks?" i was just using inductive reasoning to come to the conclusion that anon was a slimey limey shitposting between his calls to prayer
>>322359330
>NSA tracking someone who is at their computer all day, every day.
>>322359648
i can also whip up a nice greentext list of every single other cucked EU country with just as much substance and a hilarious lack of personal freedoms and liberties
>>322359742
i'm leeching off someone's unsecured wifi, NSA isn't tracking me they're tracking my neighbor. all dissident and sedition will be improperly blamed on some random fuck in my apartment complex. after all, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots from time to time.
>>322359441
>Snowden
>SOPA/PIPA/TTIP
>Police with military-grade equipment and literally no accountability
>Percentage of people in prison larger than literally any other country
>Only 20th most free country (http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/human-freedom-index-files/human-freedom-index-2015.pdf)
Oooh land of the free~
>>322352436
No, I wouldn't. Because I am not a horrible person.
>>322352502
Life is cold and hard, and people will try to grab your money by whatever means they can. To think that this is simply a coping mechanism is naive.
>>322359648
Germans do.
The same really, just more autistic people.
>>322353586
Protip: As a percentage of revenue (and our effective tax rates are much, much closer than you'd think), the US government spends just as much on health care as most European countries, but the average taxpayer doesn't receive anything.
This is because hospitals jack up prices to bilk Medicare and Medicaid.
>>322352394
That's not so bad, that's like one day of treatment in the american healthcare system!
