Because there likely wasn’t enough pixel art of women bound and gagged yet in your day, I just wanted to point out these awesome images from Auntie Pixelante, creator of Mighty Jill Off.
Also excellent is this tiny “Choose Your Own Predicament Game.” Sub, would you like your Ma’am to cane you? Paddle you? Spoon you? Pick wisely and see where the two-second adventure takes you. Then sit around and contemplate games that resist the act of play, like I’m doing! Because I’ve only been in a PhD program for two months and already I’ve become that grad student.
Bonnie Ruberg is a sex, technology, and video games journalist who contributes regularly to publications like The Economist, Forbes, and The Village Voice. By day she's also a comparative literature PhD student at UC Berkeley, where she studies French, English, gender, sexuality, surrealism and perversion. You can reach her at [her first name and last name, all one big word] AT gmail DOT com.
October 20th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Whilst distracted momentarily from tales of online dating gone awry, I was motivated by this post to reminisce about a game that was recently in the news. It’s not even a smutty game, sadly. The link is http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-09/22/the-computer-game-that-destroys-your-files.aspx
The game is called “Lose/lose.” I’m not sure the game “resists” playing, but one who plays it too frequently may find oneself unable to play much else. Each time an enemy is slain, a random file is deleted from the user’s hard drive. Harsh discipline indeed!
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Interesting stuff. Reminds me of games that are meant to be super painful/annoying to play, or the game that shocks you in real life each time you do something wrong. Doesn’t resist play, per se, but certainly doesn’t encourage it. At least I know I wouldn’t play if I thought files would get deleted from my hard drive :).