Games will sell you anything | GHG Show

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The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek likes to tell a joke about a customer in a cafe who asks for coffee without milk. The owner replies that they've run out of milk, but they can have a coffee without cream. The games industry uses a similar idea, selling the absence of something back to the consumer. Alex P (he/him) and Astrid (they/them) join Samantha (she/her) to talk about "No Crunch" as the bare minimum acceptable way to create games and not a celebration, along with a list of bad industry practices that developers can use as a marketing victory for their lack of inclusion.  

0:00 Intro

2:10 Milk and Oranges

3:48 No Crunch Gold Sticker

19:47 Break

20:18 Horse Armour and “Cosmetics”

35:32 Manufacturing Consent

38:00 An Honourable Developer

45:32 Online Passes

48:39 Break

49:00 How do we change any of this?  

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Consent

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