Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

[Pigeon On A Stick]

The main characters' design is re-used from his own newspaper comic, apparently... (second panel)

 

[Asperchewy]

HOLY SHIT! This game finally came out on Steam? OMG! Now I can finally tell everyone I know that I'll never buy this garbage! Thanks John, for finally releasing something I'll never touch! You're the best JOHNATHAN!

 

[AngeloTheWizard]

So in conclusion:

- Cannot click a check box for an hour
- Sends e-mail but not license keys to KS backers
- Kiwis get their hands on the game before KS backers
- Leaves debugger in the vanilla version of the game
- God Mode cheat is pressing TAB and typing GOD

Truly the Godzilla of Tech Feminism.



All John did was take a royalty-free song, speed it up a bit, and then add a drum beat to it on GarageBand. It is the epitome of babby's first song.

Anecdote time, powerlevel rate it all you like, but fuck it: When I was in 7th grade, I worked with Fruityloops to make a little bit of music as part of an elective computer class. The requirements were to put 6 instruments in at least, and we got walked through how to make a simple 'rock' beat using like three different drums, so from there it was just us throwing extra stuff and mixing it together til it sounded alright. What I'm saying is I put more effort in making a stupid little bit for a class when I was a goddamn teenager then Bri put in to the whole game.

The main characters' design is re-used from his own newspaper comic, apparently... (second panel)

Hey! Oklahoma's a good goddamn show, you uncultured swine!

 

[MysteriousStranger]

Fruityloops was a blast. I used to download midi files and change the instruments to things like 'spoons', 'hands clapping' and 'blowing across a bottle.'

Love me some 'tard music.

Is the Twitch stream over already? I thought it was FOUR HOURS WORTH OF CONTENT! Must be adding up all the endings.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Apparently the DLC includes cutscenes that were ripped from the original.

Also, Rev60 gains its first positive review.

 

[Luigi]

Too many pages since I wasn't here at the time of release, are the new models out yet?

And the SFM porn

 

[Catgirls are Love]

Is the Twitch stream over already? I thought it was FOUR HOURS WORTH OF CONTENT! Must be adding up all the endings.

The Twitch stream got horribly sidetracked after it was found that the console gave full access to everything. After that, it was a streamed refund and now a review.

 

[Kiwi Farms dot net]

you can put any image you want in the steam screenshot folder and upload it to the steam community if you want to flood r60's page with that john flynt/brianna wu side by side photo and have it show up for everyone

would love to do this but sadly I have to work for the next several hours. Time to start writing that hand written apology letter!

 

[Richard Stabone]

OH MY GOD THEY LEFT THE DEBUG CONSOLE IN THE GAME AND HARMFUL OPINIONS JUST USED IT TO SKIP TO THE ENDING!
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Does this mean she didn't switch the build configuration in Unreal? I'm almost certain when you switch it to shipping it doesn't allow you to access the console command. So she put up a game still in debug or development build. What a fucking moron.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

The Twitch stream got horribly sidetracked after it was found that the console gave full access to everything. After that, it was a streamed refund and now a review.

 

[vertexwindi]

well hey now these screenshots are interesting

 

[Kiwi Farms dot net]

THANKS FOR THE GAME JOHN

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

 

[Richard Stabone]

I'm getting a chuckle seeing how none of the reviews have over 2 hours played. Wu isn't going to even get a few hundred bucks off people who bought it to mock the game.

 

[Norvic]

Holy fucking shit.

I've spent a good couple of hours now browsing the code. The vast, vast majority of the game logic exists in one class, the disassembly of which is almost 16,000 lines long! To put this is to context for non-programmers, I consider a class to start getting unwieldy to maintain when it's over 2000 lines.

Tracking the game state changes is incredibly painful, because it's all in one gigantic IF statement. It's not that they've even built a state matrix, like a parser generator might. It's just IF we're in this state, AND this thing happens, GO TO this state. It's madness.

What I'm really looking for is evidence of this super-seekrit easter egg that Wu has dropped hints about. I have yet to see any evidence that there's special logic for anything.

How the "special edition" is gated from the normal edition just seems to be a single variable flag, there is just if statement gating around the extra scenes. All the files they refer to appear to be present in my non-special edition. I suspect it's easy enough to turn the normal edition in to the special edition without paying for it, I'll try to figure out how that's done.

 

[SlenderManBearPig]

I couldn't google the tweet so Wu might have deleted it (or my memory's playing tricks) but I'm pretty sure the developer console being left in is deliberate, Wu even mentioned a few codes to get people started didn't he?

 

[Richard Stabone]

Is there a way to see if Wu put the names of backers on the shipping crates or whatever she promised?

Also 2 years and she couldn't be bothered to spend 10 minutes at Vista Print to order some t-shirts for her backers. What a lazy fuck.

 

[vertexwindi]

Tracking the game state changes is incredibly painful, because it's all in one gigantic IF statement. It's not that they've even built a state matrix, like a parser generator might. It's just IF we're in this state, AND this thing happens, GO TO this state. It's madness.

Holy fucking shit

 

[AnimuGinger]

How the "special edition" is gated from the normal edition just seems to be a single variable flag, there is just if statement gating around the extra scenes. All the files they refer to appear to be present in my non-special edition. I suspect it's easy enough to turn the normal edition in to the special edition without paying for it, I'll try to figure out how that's done.

So, it's pretty much just on-disc DLC. Wot.

 

[Richard Stabone]

I couldn't google the tweet so Wu might have deleted it (or my memory's playing tricks) but I'm pretty sure the developer console being left in is deliberate, Wu even mentioned a few codes to get people started didn't he?

I'm pretty sure she doesn't know how to remove it and decided to call it a "special feature". I mean why would you leave in a debugging tool deliberately?