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You should have known better:\n\n"Lesbian Hentai Game - NewGrounds.com"\n\n"Meet'N'Fuck: Lesbian Ride - Newgrounds.com"\n\n"Lesbian Wrestling 2 - Free Online Games - Internet Fun..."\n\n[[You Google something else|Google Minus Lesbian Games Minus Romantic Comedy Games]]\n\n\n\n

You check out another software called GameMaker that you've heard some things about.\n\nAfter downloading it, you realise it requires a fair bit more understanding that Twine. \n\nYou'll go back to it in the holidays.\n\n[[Look for a host for your games|Host Games]]

Hmm, there might be something here. \n\n[[Queer Power - Newgrounds.com|Queer Power Game]]\n\n[[A Closed Word: queer-friendly Flash Game - Boing Boing|A Closed World Article]]\n\n[[The Arkh Project is Creating a Game For "Queer People of...|The Arkh Project Article]]\n\n

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You read some of her tutorial. This sounds pretty cool! And easy.\n\nYou decide to check out Twine.\n\n[[Download Twine|Download Twine]]\n\n[[Play some of her games|Play Twine Games]]\n

A one-paragraph article about a game with an androgynous protagonist. No link. \n\nOh well.\n\n[[You close the tab|Google Queer Games Minus A Closed World Article Minus Queer Power Game]]\n\n

MAS 110 Major Assignment\nby\nDylan Schneider\n43555810\n\n[[Start|Start 1]]\n

[[The Arkh Project is Creating a Game For "Queer People of...|The Arkh Project Article]]\n

Oh, shit. \n\nA Guest Editorial by a mixed race transgender women about why she feels excluded at Kotaku!\n\nIt's not a game, of course, but who is this person?!?!\n\nMattie Brice\n\n[[You Google her|Google Mattie Brice]]\n\n

[[A Closed Word: queer-friendly Flash Game - Boing Boing|A Closed World Article Minus Queer Power Game]]\n\n[[The Arkh Project is Creating a Game For "Queer People of...|The Arkh Project Article]]\n

It is indeed a show! It seems this Jonathan Holmes interviews people. The Anna Anthropy one is starting yet.\n\nYou click on some other episode... \n\n[[Rami Ismail|Sup Rami]]\n\n[[Tim Rogers|Sup Tim]]\n\n

Maybe you should check out this "[[Twine Tutorial|Twine Tutorial]]"

It's been a few weeks and you feel like you're getting alright at making Twine games, but you haven't shown them to anybody yet. You're also becoming interested in experimenting with other, more open-ended software.\n\n[[Look for a host for your games|Host Games]]\n\n[[Explore other software options|GameMaker]]

You play the first game she made: Town. It's not particularly interesting, but you realise it's quite a bit better than yours. \n\n[[You're driven to make more games|Make Games!]]

...Nothing. A bunch of irrelevant pages.\n\nThis stuff really doesn't exist, huh?\n\n[[You Google something else|Google Minus Romantic Comedy Games]]\n

...And down the rabbit hole you've fallen.\n\nSuddenly you're finding a lot of criticism of mainstream videogame culture. You're discovering more and more likeminded people. Before long you're finding tonnes of developers who make inclusive games: Anna Anthropy, Merritt Kopas, Porpentine. \n\n[[You feel welcome|Break In]]

[[Queer Power - Newgrounds.com|Queer Power Games Minus A Closed World Article]]\n\n[[The Arkh Project is Creating a Game For "Queer People of...|The Arkh Project Article]]

At the bottom of Anna Anthropy's Twine tutorial, which you have bookmarked, is a link to a free Twine hosting site, www.philome.la \n\nYou need to log in with Twitter to use it. \n\nYou don't have a Twitter account, so you make one. \n\nWithin minutes, you are able to upload your games! \n\n[[You decide to upload them all|Upload Games]]\n\n[[You decide to upload the next game you make|Don't Upload Games]]\n

A one-paragraph article about a game with an androgynous protagonist. No link.\n\nOh well.\n\n[[You close the tab|Google Queer Games Minus A Closed World Article]]\n\n

You search [[romantic comedy games|Google Romantic Comedy Games Minus Lesbian Games]]\n\nYou search [[queer games|Google Queer Games]]

MAS 110 Major Assignment

A Kotaku article about some game that is trying to be inclusive. Cool! \n\nAs you read the article, you find the game doesn't really appeal to you, and isn't out yet anyway. However, an embedded link to another article catches your eye.\n\n"Why I Don't Feel Welcome at Kotaku"\n\nWait, is this an article on Kotaku about Kotaku not being inclusive?\n\n[[You Click the article|Why I Don't Feel Welcome at Kotaku]]

This Rami Ismail guy seems pretty cool. He is half of an independent team called Vlambeer. While listening, you check out their website and find a free browser game called Luftrauser. It's very mechanically pure. You love it.\n\nYou follow Rami Ismail on Twitter. As you scroll through his tweets, you see that he tweets a lot about social issues surrounding the gaming community. Score!\n\n[[It seems you've found your people|The End]]\n

You search [[queer games|Google Queer Games]]

Well, now you have a Twitter account. Maybe you should follow some people.\n[[You look for Anna Anthropy's Twitter account|Anthropy twitter Minus Twine]]

You play around a little. Luckily, you kept Anna Anthropy's tutorial open. After some more reading, you feel like you have a handle on how to make something. \n\nIn an hour, you've made a game about walking around a house. It's pretty bad, but hey, you just made a god damn game!\n\n[[You make more games|Make Games!]]

This Tim Rogers guy has a good sense of humour. And a fascinating personality. You check out one of his mobile games, ZiGGURAT, while you listen to the interview. It's awesome. \n\nYou follow Tim Rogers on Twitter. You notice that he follows Anna Anthropy. \n\n[[It seems you've found your people|The End]]

A fighting game where fighting is replaced with sex and the health bar is an orgasm meter that increases as you are fucked by the other player and players can "transform" into the opposite sex at the press of a button.\n\nIt's hard to tell whether this game is horribly offensive or horribly misguided. \n\n[[You close the tab|Google Queer Games Minus Queer Power Game]]

Downloading and installing the software took no time at all. \n\n[[You open it|First Game Minus Play Twine Games]]

Her most recent tweet is a retweet by someone called Jonathan Holmes. \n\n"Less than 1 hour to Sup Holmes w/ @auntiepixelante and maybe @daphaknee yelling about Disney World. People are excited! destructoid.com/sup-holmes-invites-anna-anthropy-to-blow-your-minds-233804.phtml"\n\nIs that like a show?\n\n[[Click the link|Sup Holmes]]

Downloading and installing the software took no time at all. \n\n[[You open it|First Game]]

You play the first game she made: Town. It's not very inspiring, but you can kind of feel how interesting it could be. This is what first games are like, you suppose. \n\n[[Maybe you should make your own first game...|Download Twine Minus Play Twine Games]]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

You are on Anna Anthropy's website. There is a link to a "[[Twine Tutorial|Twine Tutorial]]". Apparently Twine is some kind of game development software.\n\nThere is also a link to her Twitter page, [[@auntiepixelante|Anthropy Twitter]]. \n\n

You remember an interview with the heads of Bioware from before Mass Effect 2 came out. They said they could successfully release a romantic comedy videogame. \n\nThat was 2009. \n\n[[Where are all the romantic comedies?|Start 4]]

It is March 2012. All anyone is talking about online is the ending to Mass Effect 3. Your big brother bought Mass Effect 3. He keeps telling you to play it. \n\n"You can play as a girl, and you can have sex with other girls! It's totally inclusive!"\n\nYou read that you can have sex with any character, regardless of what kind of character you are playing. So everyone in Mass Effect is pansexual?\n\nYou somehow doubt that anyone involved in designing Mass Effect's romance knows what pansexual means.\n\n[[Shouldn't they be saving the galaxy or something anyway?|Start 3]]

You are Sarah. You have played videogames your whole life.\n\nYou enjoyed the games your big brother bought when you were younger, even though he always made fun of you for playing the female characters. However, over the last several years, you have found yourself struggling to enjoy your big brother's games as you have become more and more conscious of the overwhelming masculinity present in them.\n\n[[You don't feel included in these games.|Start 2]] \n\n\n\n

You search [[lesbian games|Google Lesbian Games]]\n\nYou search [[romantic comedy games|Google Romantic Comedy Games]]\n\nYou search [[queer games|Google Queer Games]]\n\n

Wait a minute, maybe there are some romantic comedy games. You are vaguely aware of dating sims being popular in Japan. \n\nPerhaps there are some for girls? \n\nPerhaps there are some for gay girls?\n\n[[Let's try some Googling|Google]]\n\n

You upload all your games. It doesn't take long. The site automatically tweets a link to each of your games. \n\nYou now have a Twitter account. Maybe you should follow some people.\n[[You look for Anna Anthropy's Twitter account|Anthropy twitter Minus Twine]]

...Nothing. A bunch of irrelevant pages.\n\nThis stuff really doesn't exist, huh?\n\n[[You Google something else|Google Minus Lesbian Games Minus Romantic Comedy Games]]

You search [[lesbian games|Google Lesbian Games Minus Romantic Comedy Games]]\n\nYou search [[queer games|Google Queer Games]]

Dylan Schneider\n43555810\n