Deshalb sind sie dann auch so interessant - es ist zwar an Mädchen gerichtet, aber ich würde sagen, dass der Male Gaze noch dabei ganz stark präsent ist. M.E. gibt es schon ne Vielzahl an Forschungen zu nicht-Flash Spiele unter feministischen Ansätze. Aber Flash + Feminismus? Kenn ich leider nicht 😕

Das rangiert dann zwischen den von @jbirken.bsky.social erwähnten QWOP bis hin zu Flash Dating-Simulator (die in sich selbst softcore Pornografie ist - und hier m.E. die Vorgängern von HuniePop) bis hin zu 'bekannteren' Titel mit re-releases wie die "The Last Stand"-Serie, Warfare 1917 & 1944 usw..

Late to the Party (16 Tage - was??) aber ich muss nachschauen ob es ein Papier gibt zum Flash Gaming als Phänomen im Allgemeinen, da m.E. diese wirklich ein halbwegs legaler Weg für nicht westlichen Spieler*innen, eine breite Auswahl an Spielen zu spielen.

THIS. Das ganze Ding mit dem unterschiedlichsten Facebook-Spiele (habe ich auch in meinem Beitrag zum Jugend-Gaming erwähnt).

Und meinst du mit Kinderspiele die von PopCap/WildTangent? A.k.a. Diner Dash (arguably ihr bestes Titel) aber auch andere von dem Entwickler/Publisher?

So, for posterity's sake

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCHf...

to thematize this game. 18/18

and historically (especially South East Asian history) charged games, check it out. As I've probably mentioned, it speaks about a part of South East Asian history very few games have yet tried to tackle. And even if we're still far away from its 1.0, kudos to the studio for at least attempting 17/x

Also last but not least. The visuals. Which I'd describe as Wes-Anderson-ish. At first glance it's colorful, yet at the same time somewhat saturated whilst all along hiding a more contemplative meaning in its storytelling.

Overall, again, if you're a fan of Papers Please and politically 16/x

You'll meet a plethora of characters with characteristics that tells their ideals, thoughts, situations etc., which at the end of the day you'll have to contend with. They and their situations adds a layer of narrative that complicates the relationship between the state and the individual. 15/x

by it. One which I wouldn't name puts you more in the shoes of the long arm of the law: blindly following it leads to rewards and progress. On the other hand, Papers Please, Not Tonight and Compensation Not Guaranteed tries to put the conditio humana back to the cold machinery of the state. 14/x

justice. Whilst yes, your cases will be reviewed, you, as the daily face of the governmental machine will be asked for your conscience and compliance at the same time - serving two masters so to say.

And honestly, this is much more closer to Papers Please than some of the recent games inspared 13/x

middle management, you get to face the wrath of the people (literally and figuratively) and bend your knees and defend your arguments in front of higher level state workers - not completely free of corruption, of course. But more importantly, you are literally at the forefront of the blind 12/x

whole German November Revolution situation www.bundestag.de/resource/blo..., where conflicting parties, less along racial ones, more along political ones were trying to reach power in the situation).

And you, dear player, are stuck on the middle of it all. As the lowest strata of national 11/x

conflicts were... common. Not only in newly independent countries (see e.g. the Darul Islam rebellion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darul_I... or the Madiun Affair en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madiun_...), but was also felt basically in European Countries (the most prominent example would've been the 10/x

being the first example, with another one - a race riot/demonstration - being the reason why the demo ended so abruptly. And it's too easy to point towards the S'Porean race riots (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_ra...) as a connection here, but under the banner of national/state building, these 9/x

grandfather's birth notification which was still written in Dutch).

And with the colonializing forces comes the globalizing ones: multiple ethnicities living, at this point of time since generations in the same place trying to find a new identity - ethnic or national. The aforementioned dog 8/x

again reflecting when they were made under which colonial rule: Japanese writings coinciding with Anglicized terms - referring much more closely to the Singaporean/Malaysian past (as british and later during WW2 japanese colonies), but also not that far away from e.g. Indonesian ones (like my 7/x