It's been 2 and a half years since Social Justice Warriors was released and unfortunately the game is more relevant than ever. Online discourse has only become more combative as the divisions between ideological groups have widened further. In response, I've released a remastered edition of Social Justice Warriors that adds clickable buttons and mouse support, improves text scaling to support higher resolutions, and renames the Patience health meter to better represent the intended meaning. This free update also fixes a number of gameplay bugs and adds an in-game Options menu, a postgame recap, and online leaderboards. I hope that playing Social Justice Warriors gives you a lot to think about. Good luck out there! [I found and patched a few more bugs in the 24 hours after release, including one major one, so I reset the leaderboards to compensate. Sorry!]
It's been 2 and a half years since Social Justice Warriors was released and unfortunately the game is more relevant than ever. Online discourse has only become more combative as the divisions between ideological groups have widened further. In response, I've released a remastered edition of Social Justice Warriors that adds clickable buttons and mouse support, improves text scaling to support higher resolutions, and renames the Patience health meter to better represent the intended meaning. This free update also fixes a number of gameplay bugs and adds an in-game Options menu, a postgame recap, and online leaderboards. I hope that playing Social Justice Warriors gives you a lot to think about. Good luck out there!
This week marks one-year after the original release of Social Justice Warriors. I made the game in April 2014 after seeing an image circulating that said to ignore what a group of people had to say because they were "social justice warriors." Since I saw the increasingly frequent back and forth online arguments as two people dueling on the ramparts, I translated it into the form of a videogame to make people on both sides take a look at why they do it from the simplified perspective of gameplay mechanics. I hoped that the use of dismissive labels "social justice warrior" and "troll" would make people reflect on why using these terms makes it easier to fight someone. I hoped that people would relate their videogame memories of the frantic desperation of a low health bar to the Sanity and Reputation meters and understand how demoralizing and destroying other people affects them. I hoped people would learn to recognize the logical fallacies that constantly surround us online. It's been a difficult year since the game released last May: a shooting, harassment, stalking, doxxing, swatting. The online community has metamorphosed into something entirely new since the game was first conceived. It's been a challenge to update the game as it became increasingly tame compared to the harsh reality of what people were doing to each other. This week's fourth major game update attempts to reinforce the gameplay messages and highlight the optimistic end-game of mediation and reconciliation. Because ultimately, all we can control is our own behavior and the example we set for others. Social Justice Warriors is 25% off until May 18th.
This week marks one-year after the original release of Social Justice Warriors. I made the game in April 2014 after seeing an image circulating that said to ignore what a group of people had to say because they were "social justice warriors." Since I saw the increasingly frequent back and forth online arguments as two people dueling on the ramparts, I translated it into the form of a videogame to make people on both sides take a look at why they do it from the simplified perspective of gameplay mechanics. I hoped that the use of dismissive labels "social justice warrior" and "troll" would make people reflect on why using these terms makes it easier to fight someone. I hoped that people would relate their videogame memories of the frantic desperation of a low health bar to the Sanity and Reputation meters and understand how demoralizing and destroying other people affects them. I hoped people would learn to recognize the logical fallacies that constantly surround us online. It's been a difficult year since the game released last May: a shooting, harassment, stalking, doxxing, swatting. The online community has metamorphosed into something entirely new since the game was first conceived. It's been a challenge to update the game as it became increasingly tame compared to the harsh reality of what people were doing to each other. This week's fourth major game update attempts to reinforce the gameplay messages and highlight the optimistic end-game of mediation and reconciliation. Because ultimately, all we can control is our own behavior and the example we set for others. Social Justice Warriors is 25% off until May 18th.
Good news, warriors and trolls! Achievements are now fully functional. Thanks for allowing a few days to get everything up and running.
This is my first Steam release so there was a lot to learn very quickly to release the game in the few weeks between PAX South and PAX East. Remember, if you encounter any bugs or technical problems, you can report them in the Technical Support discussion thread with steps to reproduce and the OS you're using and receive notification when it's been resolved.
Meanwhile, I will be fixing some small issues and adding new content to expand the current warrior and troll repertoire of:
That's more variety than most real life arguments!
Now get out there and earn some achievements!
Good news, warriors and trolls! Achievements are now fully functional. Thanks for allowing a few days to get everything up and running.
This is my first Steam release so there was a lot to learn very quickly to release the game in the few weeks between PAX South and PAX East. Remember, if you encounter any bugs or technical problems, you can report them in the Technical Support discussion thread with steps to reproduce and the OS you're using and receive notification when it's been resolved.
Meanwhile, I will be fixing some small issues and adding new content to expand the current warrior and troll repertoire of:
That's more variety than most real life arguments!
Now get out there and earn some achievements!
Social Justice Warriors is Now Available on Steam and is 25% off!*
Social Justice Warriors is a satirical role-playing game that transforms the standard medieval fantasy heroes of RPGs into social media crusaders facing an endless horde of internet trolls.
*Offer ends March 6 at 10AM Pacific Time
Social Justice Warriors
Nonadecimal Creative
Nonadecimal Creative
2015-02-27
Indie RPG Simulation Singleplayer
Game News Posts 7
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support
Mixed
(98 reviews)
http://www.nonadecimal.com/SJW
https://store.steampowered.com/app/348270
The Game includes VR Support
Social Justice Warriors Linux Depot [42.47 M]
The Warriors
- Social Justice Paladins duel foes with 140 characters or less while shrugging off attacks with a press of the Block button, at least until their foes create new accounts.
- Social Justice Clerics serve in the name of their patron sub deity, taking solace in its comforting presence to heal and summoning its divine power to smite their enemies.
- Social Justice Mages conjure powerful constructs of fact and opinion to alter minds and reality while occasionally summoning an activist organization or hurling a scathing fireball of a blog post.
- Social Justice Rogues fight fire with fire. Throw flurries of vitriolic character attacks, confuse enemies with smokescreens of alternate accounts, then delete your accounts and withdraw into the shadows of the net.
The warriors and their opponents fight and fall by the measure of their Sanity and Reputation meters. Trolls confound your sanity with logical fallacies and ad hominem attacks while actively working to destroy your reputation with wild accusations and photoshopped evidence of your misdeeds.
How you choose to respond to these attacks is up to you. Relying solely on logical arguments to change minds doesn’t work very well online, but resorting to personal attacks and mudslinging will erode your moral high ground.
With the aid of your warrior allies and a few mysterious outsiders, you have the ability to reshape the conflict. Take down a multitude of trolls to attain a new high score or make sacrifices to become a noble Social Justice Champion, who takes no joy in tearing down other human beings. The Champion relies on mediation and reconciliation, listening to their concerns and proposing mutually beneficial compromise. The utility of compromise is just as uncertain as destroying opponents, but a Champion values its beliefs more than temporary gratification.
- OS: Ubuntu 10.10Memory: 1 GB RAMStorage: 80 MB available space
- Memory: 1 GB RAMStorage: 80 MB available space
- Storage: 80 MB available space
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