that is WONDERFUL news!

thank you! it is bad!!!

if this makes you mad, keep calling!!!!!! bsky.app/profile/acva...

tfw your campaign ostensibly advocating against the objectification of women results in the de-indexing of a game about the psychological aftermath of women being objectified 🫠🫠🫠

Oh, and in case it isn’t clear, I don’t think my game deserves special treatment just because it’s educational. This is just a particularly egregious example of what happens when you try to target adult creators who are living their lives trying to make horny art in peace

also...it's free? This is not a game you pay money for??

But if you DID want to pay money, you could donate to Jennifer Ann's Group, which funds and promotes games about intimate partner violence, consent, and healthy relationships 💙

jenniferann.org/donate.htm

ATC is marked as sensitive content because we didn’t want to re-traumatize survivors. The entire game is about the *fallout* of assault on individuals. I don’t think I have to explain why it’s disastrous that a game like this would be caught in the dragnet of adult game removal.

ATC is educational, yes – it teaches about consent/gender violence on college campuses – but it’s also the most personal game I have ever made. I know SO many people who were assaulted by a classmate, tried to do something about it, and fought brutal battles with both their assaulter + school admin.

I am so happy for you 😭😭😭 this is the culmination of years of hard work, but at the same time it is JUST THE BEGINNING (I know in my heart this is true)

In this case, I would like to break the cycle and the silence on my own erasure. Since the night of the GDC Awards, I often think about what I would have said if I had been given the opportunity to speak. I think it would have been something like this:

is this funny? yes. do I deeply despair that far too much water was wasted just to spew forth this garbage I didn't ask for? mhmm