18 Oct 08 Gameology dissects me and Roach Toaster

Tags: gameology, muslim massacre, roach toaster

A friend passed me this link to Gameology. They picked up on Roach Toaster when it was reviewed on Costik’s playthisthing.

They managed to compare Roach Toaster to the infamous Muslim Massacre! While Muslic Massacre garnered media attention because of its controversial nature, Roach Toaster didn’t, simply because it is a game about “toasting” roaches…

Gameology then continues to dissect Roach Toaster for any underlying political and racial undertones. Considering that I am a white South African, they proclaim that Roach Toaster was created to portray the “white elite” crushing the hordes of “blacks”. Something along that line.

Read it!

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I don’t really know what to think about it. Firstly its awesome to see someone dissect me and my game, but it is so farfetched at the same time. I clearly created the game purely for being a game. If I wanted to make a political statement I would’ve done so by simply making the roaches black people.

Somewhere in it all there might contain an unintentional political statement, considering that the game idea DID come from watching a riot on TV… But I’m sure that if I wasn’t living in South Africa and saw a riot on TV, the same idea would’ve followed.