Only $450? Somebody's ambitions for ripping off yokels have fallen low.
She might no longer be able to capture the same level of E-hype as before, but she's still a shitty "game dev" as always. I took a trip through the #JJJvstheKKK tag and found it hit quite a few familiar notes.
Riley first posted four months ago that
she just started working on a great new game, she needed $1000 and the whole thing would be done in a week. That's an entire grand for something with the scale and development cycle of a 00s Flash game. After a week of aggressive promotion,
she's down to needing $400, but the game development (of course) runs over schedule.
The co-dev announces finishing it two weeks in.
Then four weeks in.
Then two months in.
Then, suddenly, it's Christmas. Turns out it's perpetually "being finished" because she's commissioning all her art again, and the crowdfunding has just been a carefully-disguised way of getting other people to bankroll art of her KKK-punching self-insert.
Then, in January, she decides to bring it back. At some point, she's retroactively decided that
the game was part of a new bimonthly games jam, and that month would be the second installment of it. For the uninitiated, a games jam is a social event where programmers create microgames under a strict time limit and then show off their results. Riley's #BlackGirlJam is a complete sham of an event by these standards, because: 1. she and her friend are the only people participating, 2. their game has already been in development for
months, defeating the whole purpose of a time limit; and 3. no one asks people to pay hundreds of dollars to cover the "costs" of what's supposed to be a fun coding exercise. You'll also notice that she randomly starts asking for $50 more.
Gotta keep on commissioning, guys!
Naturally, she failed to hit her January deadline as well, which brings us up to date. It does seem decently likely that this game's going to get released
eventually, since it's vastly less ambitious than her previous project. But what's it going to be like? Well...
$1000.