Note: This trailer contains adult language and potentially sensitive content.
Well, here's something a little different. From Spanish developer Jandusoft comes Indiecalypse, a game full of dark humour and tales of indie game development.
The game is said to depict "the crude reality of indie game developers and their struggles to get their s*** together when it comes to releasing a video game", and is apparently "sadly based on real events". It follows the story of three misfits who team up to design and produce their own indie game; you can see the kind of humour that awaits you in the trailer above.
It's currently gathering funds on Kickstarter to become a reality, although it's already over two-thirds of the way to being a success after just a single day. We're pretty sure it's going to smash its goal, so feel free to head on over to learn more about it and pledge your support. You can get digital or physical copies and there's even a Collector's Edition, too.
Here's the Kickstarter trailer and - you guessed it - there's more bad language and potentially sensitive material here, too:
Does this look like your kind of thing? Will you be pledging your support to secure your copy? Let us know in the comments.
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Making an Indy game can be dangerous, especially for womyn. I think about Zoe Quinn and all the abuse this poor girl has endured and it’s almost beyond hubeing limits. Xe has suffered so much that I am often just fall down and openly weep if I dwell on it too long
"Boritos"... Now I want some cheesy knock off tortillas chips.
Sounds a bit narcissistic to me. Making a game as a game developer about game developers? Then again, Sunset Boulevard was quite brilliant
File this one under ‘trying too hard to be edgy’ based on the trailer. ‘We can use the F word lots, do you accept us now?’
I missed the humor in that trailer somehow.
Weird.
@ShaiHulud Yeah. To my knowledge video games don’t have their equivalent of Sunset Blvd. or 8 1/2. Worth a shot if they can get it right.
@Patron Congratulations on being the worst troll of all time. Showing your hand so obviously that no one can possibly take it seriously. Unless that’s your point.
This looks like the absolute worst thing.
But I'm sure children will love it. They love references. Some might even say they somehow qualify as humour, that you can replace an actual joke with a reference to evolve it into a super joke. I have to admit, "that's a thing that I recognise" definitely is a hilarious anecdote and the absolute peak of comedy genius...If I were braindead.
@NotTelevision They’re sockpuppeting, not exactly the most clever of baits.
Holy sh*t this looks stupid.
@nessisonett Yeah. There you go, sockpuppeting.
Gotta love the way “certain people” parody the other side. He probably thinks Carl Benjamin’s humor is really funny and cutting edge.
I just look at the trailer and think "Chris Savino's back to work?"
Also, CUSSING, ADULT HUMOR, VIDYA REFERENCES, PARODYING, AND SOCIAL COMMENTARY! You can feel the comedy from here, and it feels like a sharp hot fork through your eye.
@Patron comment of the year contender right there. I like the art style, they got that going for them which is nice
@Patron The guy who she accused (since no evidence was ever produced) killed himself....Directly affecting someone's life to the point of suicide is quite insidious.
I had this idea a long time ago! Ha. Well, they made it so I’m intrigued to see if it matches up with what I had in mind
@SonOfVon Speaking of "copyright infringement" didn't they mostly just pirate the art style from the Parkers?
@Tao You know, nobody every put it into words before what bugs me about modern "humor" and why none of it seems funny. Be it references or whatnot. It's all designed for children... Sometimes it seems like the entire internet is really designed for children. Or is it that the entire adult population now has the mentality of a child?
@NotTelevision Yes, narratively speaking gaming is still very much in its infant stage. When dreary, po-faced snooze fests like The Last of Us are being heralded as the second coming, you know we're still some way away.
@Patron doesn't she write books now under the name Chuck Tingle ?
ooohh more indie BS.
No thank you
Regret watching both videos. Reminds me of the days of Uwe Boll — and I regret bringing him up, now, too.
What any of this has to do with indie video game development I have little idea. I guess there is some sort of joke about what people think it is, or imagine themselves doing compared to reality or something? Maybe?
What is being labeled dark humor here, is more like puerile humor.
@FrowningCoach Flagged as a BAD or inappropriate comment. LEAVE ZOE ALONE
@ShaiHulud Yeah I would agree with you there. There are good video game narratives out there, but that isn’t one in my opinion. Unless you find Rick from the Walking Dead and Ellen Page’s character from Juno really compelling for some reason.
@Patron in RL we would be pals
@NEStalgia References can be used well in humour but the vast majority of it is just "look at this thing you recognise" with nothing clever or transformative done with it.
It's just "look, Lemmy from Motorhead is a chef". Okay, why? What's the joke? There is no joke, they could just do the thing, so they did the thing and it's funny because you know the thing.
@Tao I suppose kids have always found things funny that adults will never understand how kids find it funny....but that somehow sounds particularly lame.
I suppose it's more lame that adults seem to be delighted by it too. Heck even adult TV, I haven't found most of the (American) comedy of the past 15 years or so to be even vaguely humorous. Not sure what the transformation was, but something changed in what the masses are humored by.
That's completely rubbish.
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