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The very first multiplayer version of the game was predicated on the idea that a floppy sausage is an inherently funny object to control. How silliness makes a serious message more approachableĪt its core, Genital Jousting is a fumble-core game. It’s slapstick comedy. The whole quest for love thing serves as a plot device that allows us to subvert and avert all the harmful romantic tropes that you find in popular culture. Genital Jousting isn’t really a love story - it’s a story about learning and unlearning what it means to be a man. The story of a man trying to find love and attract women in all the worst ways seemed like an obvious opportunity to talk about how men are socialized and offer a critique of toxic masculine culture. We kept the setup of a lonely penis in a rut with an unfulfilling job, but we shifted focus to make the pursuit of romance become the driving narrative force. We realized we wanted to talk about masculinity more than anything - and a game where you are a literal penis would be the perfect vehicle to do so. We wanted to make something that people could relate to - that they could find meaningful as well as funny.

However, pretty early, on we realized that we had experiences and feelings from our own lives that we wanted to pour into the game. It was so that you could have enough friends to play the multiplayer modes with. The joke was that it was something of a tutorial mode for real life.

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It was going to be about a depressed penis learning how to make friends.

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The first draft of the story mode was going to be much more like Goat Simulator with narration and genitals. Using humorous dinks to explore toxic masculinity He really kept us motivated by always maintaining the highest possible standards with regards to smoothness and soulfulness. Also, a large pedestal for our dog (Leeroy Jenkins - Italian Greyhound) to sit on in the middle of the room where we could more easily see and pet him at all times. Tools of the trade and key motivational dogs There was nothing remotely like that around, and that was very exciting to us. The idea of a fully narrated fumble-core game about penises was too stupid and too surprising not to pursue. The idea for “stacking” penises came from an old (and admittedly gross) drawing that had been on our walls since early Broforce days - controlling flaccid penises that could penetrate each other just seemed like a fun multiplayer mechanic to try out in a game jam.Īfter the first multiplayer versions started coming together, the thought of a story mode really started to take hold. Not just because of how much people found the game to be funny, but also because of how it enabled people to have conversations about penises that they wouldn’t otherwise have in everyday life. One of these, a local multiplayer game called Wang Commander, was particularly inspiring and important for the conception of Genital Jousting. Pieterse, in particular, made a good few penis games in an effort to explore his sexuality and masculinity.

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We thought we had seen it all, but Genital Jousting turned out to be surprisingly hard to make!īelieve it or not, Genital Jousting is the latest in a long lineage of penis-related games by Free Lives team members. We had a breakout success with Broforce that paved the way for us to try weirder (and stupider?) things like Genital Jousting. It was only after the advent of indie games that Free Lives could be formed in 2012. Game development wasn’t really a commercially viable thing in South Africa up until quite recently, though. We’ve been trying to make games and art for just about as long as we can remember. With regard to the story, a lot of credit must also go to Jon Keevy - our delightful writer (who also didn’t help us fill out these questions). But it would be amiss not to mention the rest of the wonderful team at Free Lives who put so much work into making Genital Jousting happen.

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Along with Richard Pieterse (who wasn’t around to help us fill out these questions), we take full responsibility for the design and programming of Genital Jousting. Gamasutra spoke with Robbie Fraser and Evan Greenwood of Free Lives, developers of the Excellence in Narrative-nominated Genital Jousting, to learn about the challenges of making a penis that wasn't intimidating or horrifying, the humor to be found in putting genitals through everyday tasks, and the appeal of using such a silly setup to explore an important subject. It's a silly game of floppy dongs doing normal things in funny ways, but it also touches on the hurtful things men are taught every day. Genital Joustinguses the framework of the mundane lives of anthropomorphized penises to tell a story of toxic masculinity and breaking down harmful socializations.

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