I think, after reading your comments, I feel like this story is actually about grief of both the narrator and the character we see!!
At first, I was a little shook by the story and didn't fully understand where to start, but the longer I read (i played the game 3 times to try and understand it lmao it took me a while), the less sexist I believed it was, and more it came across as a friend or someone in the community of this small town to not see her friend or this person they admired, die a hopeless death, someone who provided hope and love to them and others in the community. desperately trying to investigate how she died and understand what lied beyond the surface of killing herself.
Interpreting the story this way made me understand and appreciate the story a lottt more. Your questions below made me realize some more things about the game and the implications!! I've been playing too many horror games recently so I was scared it was something a lot darker, but I've interpreted it this way and if this is the way it is meant to be interpreted, it's super sweet and is making me shed a tear icllll ;-;
i think some of the comments about leg hair come less from a sexist standard that's supposed to be an ideal, but rather more about what the character represented to the town, and when they stopped shaving it was about the fact that she shaved all the time, not that shaving is good or bad for an example, at least that's the way im interpreting it?
Look, I get what you're going for. It's MEANT to be sexist because the character we're playing as is sexist. However, I do not think that this fits for the game jam due to its explicit nudity. (I am aware that there is an option to censor nudity.) I'm not saying that ALL entries in the Girly Game Jams need to be squeaky-clean - heck, you could look back at previous jam entries for yourself - but the fact that you're able to strip the corpse of a woman naked might be going too far.
Also, plz mark this as adult - sincerely, the "please mark this as adult" girl.
I wasn't going to respond to this, but I'm hoping you'll use it as a learning opportunity:
Please recognize the gendered way you're talking about this:
The fact that you saw "girly" and defaulted to referring to the jam itself as if it was a helpless baby.
The implication that, because it's affiliated with that word, "girly," the intended audience will somehow be unable to withstand it.
The fact that you're leaving this comment to protect the concept of the game jam despite the fact that "dark subject matter," and even gore specifically, is explicitly mentioned as being allowed on its main page.
These kinds of biases are why I made this specific game for this specific jam, and I would love if you considered it more with them in mind.
I put a lot more into this than "It's sexist because you're playing as a sexist."
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I think, after reading your comments, I feel like this story is actually about grief of both the narrator and the character we see!!
At first, I was a little shook by the story and didn't fully understand where to start, but the longer I read (i played the game 3 times to try and understand it lmao it took me a while), the less sexist I believed it was, and more it came across as a friend or someone in the community of this small town to not see her friend or this person they admired, die a hopeless death, someone who provided hope and love to them and others in the community. desperately trying to investigate how she died and understand what lied beyond the surface of killing herself.
Interpreting the story this way made me understand and appreciate the story a lottt more. Your questions below made me realize some more things about the game and the implications!! I've been playing too many horror games recently so I was scared it was something a lot darker, but I've interpreted it this way and if this is the way it is meant to be interpreted, it's super sweet and is making me shed a tear icllll ;-;
i think some of the comments about leg hair come less from a sexist standard that's supposed to be an ideal, but rather more about what the character represented to the town, and when they stopped shaving it was about the fact that she shaved all the time, not that shaving is good or bad for an example, at least that's the way im interpreting it?
yeah anyway cool game! :)
Look, I get what you're going for. It's MEANT to be sexist because the character we're playing as is sexist. However, I do not think that this fits for the game jam due to its explicit nudity. (I am aware that there is an option to censor nudity.) I'm not saying that ALL entries in the Girly Game Jams need to be squeaky-clean - heck, you could look back at previous jam entries for yourself - but the fact that you're able to strip the corpse of a woman naked might be going too far.
Also, plz mark this as adult - sincerely, the "please mark this as adult" girl.
EDIT: Reworded some things.
I wasn't going to respond to this, but I'm hoping you'll use it as a learning opportunity:
Please recognize the gendered way you're talking about this:
These kinds of biases are why I made this specific game for this specific jam, and I would love if you considered it more with them in mind. I put a lot more into this than "It's sexist because you're playing as a sexist."
I had reworded my comment to hopefully express what I am saying better than before.
this game is INCREDIBLY sexist. its not the defiling of a corpse its what you boil down the idea of women in to.