Steampunk Feminists Vs. Zombies

[Naeras]

I'm not too proud to say that I wouldn't think a second about throwing money at that.

 

[Alluos]

What is that? At the bottom of the page -.-... a Miracle of Sound reference? Or perhaps you do indeed just like to sneak.

 

[disappointed]

Can anyone point to a funded Kickstarter game project by someone with no game making experience?

It says a lot about the games industry that just having Victorian feminists as protagonists in an otherwise bog standard game is enough to put it comfortably in the top 5th percentile.

 

[lord.jeff]

I'm hoping someone's already trying to make this as a web game.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I would totally play that game.

Yeah i'm in too.

Also this exists - The Bone Shaker by Cherie Priest is a steampunk novel with feminist undertones (it's about a widow confronting the spectre of her abusive husband and rescuing her headstrong son. By shooting Zombies. Kindof. Admittedly she gets rescued a couple of times but she's the protagonist and does her own asskicking. Also, there's a pissed off native american woman with knives whose effectively the biggest badass in the book)

Nice reference Tsunami! Cherie Priest is one of the better Steampunk Writers out there and helped define it rather than jumping on the bandwagon. Her second book Dreadnaught is also awesome, though doesn't have zombies.

And overall, I blame the excellent character designs for why people would actually want to donate/play this! Those ladies look absolutely fantastic!

 

[Ukomba]

Am I the only one who finds this fashion more attractive than the excessively revealing clothing in rl and most video games?

 

[Celi]

Yeah... I'd probably buy that. Although only after issuing death threats to the developers.

Also, I'm honestly, non-ironically, non-sarcastically liking those character designs.

That's because they're incredibly awesome. The title is indeed just a bunch of buzzwords strung together, but that picture would make me donate without a second thought. Non-ironically.

 

[Seneschal]

Is it bad I that I actually mistook this for a real indie game at first?

Yeah, in the site header, it did nothing to imply that it was a new Critical Miss. It genuinely looked like someone kickstarted the game that would make me stop taking kickstarter seriously.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Hey, I'd play it...

Also this exists - The Bone Shaker by Cherie Priest is a steampunk novel with feminist undertones (it's about a widow confronting the spectre of her abusive husband and rescuing her headstrong son. By shooting Zombies. Kindof. Admittedly she gets rescued a couple of times but she's the protagonist and does her own asskicking. Also, there's a pissed off native american woman with knives whose effectively the biggest badass in the book)

...Note to self, try to find this book somewhere...

 

[Erttheking]

Oh great, now I actually want that game.

Bit of advice, if you want to poke fun at this kind of stuff, you might want to make the concept art less GORGEOUS!

 

[Absimilliard]

I really do get the satire. But I also really want that to be made...

 

[Ryan Keepers]

I'm surprised more people aren't asking for a wallpaper version of the game artwork. It's pretty awesome.

 

[Voltano]

I wouldn't be surprised if some indie company out there did make a game based around this joke.

What would that be called when that happens? Its like Rule 34, but we might get a good game from this instead of smut. Rule 35?

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I like that we're finally putting the hipsters in their place for what is tantamount to social pork barrelling.

pork barreling?


I'd buy it! great comic, so glad we're away from Erin for the moment

 

[Pinky's Brain]

n00bs don't get the reference to that feminist ***** swindling people.

It's not a swindle if she delivers what she said she would deliver ... she is just taking advantage of trumped up controversy to get people to donate far more money than she needs to deliver.

Idiots and their money and all ...

 

[Ukomba]

I wouldn't be surprised if some indie company out there did make a game based around this joke.

What would that be called when that happens? Its like Rule 34, but we might get a good game from this instead of smut. Rule 35?

Depending on where you look, there are between 48 and 900 rules already existing. Rule 35 already exists.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

n00bs don't get the reference to that feminist ***** swindling people.

It's not a swindle if she delivers what she said she would deliver ... she is just taking advantage of trumped up controversy to get people to donate far more money than she needs to deliver.

Idiots and their money and all ...

She didn't really "take advantage" of anything, she started the kickstarter and got youtube comment bombed by assholes who ended up having the opposite effect they hoped to have.

 

[DirtyJunkieScum]

Now this is the kind of critical Miss Comic I like.

 

[Clearing the Eye]

I like that we're finally putting the hipsters in their place for what is tantamount to social pork barreling.

pork barreling?


I'd buy it! great comic, so glad we're away from Erin for the moment

Pork barreling is a political move that basically refers to a politician pumping money into an area under the guise of reason A, when really they are doing it for reason B, when reason B is personal. It can be someone saying they are going to spend ten million dollars improving Generic Suburbonia, when really they simply give money to the Generic Suburbonian government as a bribe for them to support their upcoming bill, for example. Or, it can be a Prime Minster buying votes at the next reelection by dumping money in an area they don't have many supporters--they don't actually care or want anything done to improve the area, they just want to look good and win votes.

I called it social pork barreling because so many people are pretending to care about these gender issues, to be part of the movement and to seem caring and empathetic not because they genuinely know anything about the topic or want to do anything helpful, but because they want to look better or be a part of the trend. I've no doubt many a guy is also riding the feminism train of late to score points with the opposite sex, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.