Cat Park - Cursed Glow Browser Game from 2022

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Glowniggers are spying us talking about Cat Park. This is not niggerlicious at all, nor it is even divine intellect.
 
I could not get past the first scene because I feel a real evil emanating from it. It's a simulacra of being groomed by the CIA. There is a horror here I don't want to delve into, and it's not just because somehow I paid for this.
 
There has never been a better time to get into video game development. Not only is it easier and more accessible than ever, but the AAA space is about to collapse on itself and US government will literally pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to make shitty propaganda games!
275K is not a small sum of money. I say this without a single bit of irony, if you want quick cash then get in on the government gibs train. Your game might be shit, nobody will like it and that is to be expected, HOWEVER you will actively build up your company to make bigger, better products down the line for little effort. We know Uncle Sam is willing to pay this much money for a 15-20 minute flash game, think what else they will pay for.
 
Relinquish said:
The story of the game centers around the "Cat Park", a park for cats that your city wants to build, but for some reason, your objective is to manipulate the masses into thinking that the "Cat Park" is some weird secret satanic cult or some other outrageous shit you can think of. The game encourages you to use manipulative and emotional language to defame them.
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All politics aside, this sounds like a fun premise to a game. It seems like something Adult Swim would make though, not the US Government.
 
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Schwarzwald said:
Words cannot express my disappointment at what I thought this was going to be based on the title versus what this was.

I JUST WANTED TO BUILD A PARK FOR KITTIES IN A SANDBOX FORMAT, GOD DAMN IT!!
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Dysnomia said:
I am also disappoint. Please someone make a game where we can build an actual cat park.
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There's Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector (mobile game for ios/android, free, I believe no ads, and I don't think there's any meaningful microtransactions)
Not quite what you're asking for, but a similar vein. Basically you place furniture/toys/etc, place food, then check in on the app every few hours to see what the kitties are doing.
 
$275k and they couldn't even add voice acting? Imagine if other games like fucking TCOAAL got funded with $275k, it would be be much better than this boring shit.
 
visara said:
There's Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector (mobile game for ios/android, free, I believe no ads, and I don't think there's any meaningful microtransactions)
Not quite what you're asking for, but a similar vein. Basically you place furniture/toys/etc, place food, then check in on the app every few hours to see what the kitties are doing.
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Ill do you one better - Animal Restaurant. It’s about a cat named Gumi who was lost during a disaster, and starts up a restaurant for all the other animals. My daughter had an account, I took it over years ago. Still play everyday. There‘s microtransactions, they are never necessary, or intrusive.
Animal Restaurant
 
Ahh yes, the average right wing conspiracy theorist, a black chick with pink hair.
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$275,000 for the most basic renpy game, which gives a grade school level interpretation of how social media manipulation works.

Money well spent.
 
30+GameOvers said:
There has never been a better time to get into video game development. Not only is it easier and more accessible than ever, but the AAA space is about to collapse on itself and US government will literally pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to make shitty propaganda games!
275K is not a small sum of money. I say this without a single bit of irony, if you want quick cash then get in on the government gibs train. Your game might be shit, nobody will like it and that is to be expected, HOWEVER you will actively build up your company to make bigger, better products down the line for little effort. We know Uncle Sam is willing to pay this much money for a 15-20 minute flash game, think what else they will pay for.
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There's never been a better time to get into an industry where 99.9% of products fail to make a week's salary at McDonalds back and take years to make? Sounds a great way to waste your life on nothing!
Pitckus said:
All politics aside, this sounds like a fun premise to a game. It seems like something Adult Swim would make though, not the US Government.
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There are plenty of zoo sims on steam so there has to be some girl game about making a park. It's such an obvious concept with the stardew valley fad we had recently.
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Ahh yes, the average right wing conspiracy theorist, a black chick with pink hair.
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Her hair is red. If you're seeing pink you might want to get your vision checked.

She's your average right winger podcaster's wife or sister.
 
It’s not enough to try and destroy our country, now they have to use adorable little kitties as a front for it? God I hate the US government, just pure contempt
 
Quijibo69 said:
Government dox: https://americanspaces.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/292/22-Cat-Park-Toolkit.pdf Your taxes dollars at work!
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Gameplay in Cat Park is fun and intuitive, and is currently available in English, Dutch, French, and RUSSIAN.

Key Dates:
• October 24-31 -- UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week
• October 29 -- National Cat Day
• October 31 -- Halloween
• November 14-18 -- International Education Week
• Best date for you -- host country media literacy campaigns
• TBD – 2 to 3 months in advance of any host country national or regionally significant elections or other known events vulnerable to disinformation
 

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I watched JTSmash's video and while I think he has some valid points (Why are we wasting tax dollars on this? Why is someone outside of the USA being paid to make this, etc), he admits he did not finish the game and therefore he missed the ending. I played the game (which took 10 minutes) and in the end you basically find out that you were being manipulated into creating propaganda for a rich douche bag, and then you finish the game game by using the techniques you learned to fix the damage you created.

I thought the game was meh and boring, but I do see how this game could teach younger people how to stop and question headlines and photos before spreading them, which is a good thing. Yes, bad people could also use this information to create propaganda rather than question it, but that is always a risk when you teach people anything, some people will misuse the information for nefarious reasons.

This game reminded me of Lucas Pope's game The Republia Times only it's a lot less fun.

Really, I think the bigger thing here is that since no one played until the ending, they missed a link to a company called Inoculation Science. They made several games and videos about misinformation. Here's their "about" section:
Inoculation Science values transparency and open science. All interventions found on this website are freely available for all to use as they wish, for example in education or as workshop materials. Our academic publications are all peer-reviewed and published in reputable scientific journals. We provide links to all our data, analysis scripts, surveys and pre-registrations, to make it as easy as possible for others to replicate our findings
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I haven't played any of these games/videos but they made a game about combating covid 19 misinformation, so I don't have much faith in them. Each game also includes a "study" about how the games apparently helped people learn how to spot misinformation. I'm too lazy to read them but it's probably worth taking a look at, especially since these games and studies are being cited and used to justify spending tax dollars on more initiatives to combat misinformation: https://inoculation.science/inoculation-games/
 
CoolFool said:
I haven't played any of these games/videos but they made a game about combating covid 19 misinformation, so I don't have much faith in them. Each game also includes a "study" about how the games apparently helped people learn how to spot misinformation. I'm too lazy to read them but it's probably worth taking a look at, especially since these games and studies are being cited and used to justify spending tax dollars on more initiatives to combat misinformation: https://inoculation.science/inoculation-games/
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I'm archiving pages now. They translated one of the games into fucking Esperanto.


 

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