QCF: Say No! More

t first glance of Say No! More, I immediately had memories of an arcade game I used to play at anime conventions called Cho Chabudai Gaeshi. It was a table-flipping game where you would pound on the table to charge up the attack in various settings such as a wedding and an office, before unleashing your attack and flipping the table for maximum destruction. I was happy to find out that Say No! More may be close to that goofy experience that I enjoyed years ago, with plenty of humor and no-stress gameplay. The game does not deliver on challenge or depth but presents an important message in what is described as a linguistic arcade comedy.

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GDC 15: Advancing the genre of comedy games with Zoe Quinn

hile the concept of a video game striving to be funny is far from groundbreaking, titles that veer more towards everything humorous has yet to be recognized as its own genre, and some developers are aiming to change that.

Zoe Quinn took to the stage as she campaigned that the science of comedy can be adapted into the format of interactive media like video games successfully if given the right attention to the details that compose the humor.

While the irony of an independent developer who’s primarily known for releasing a title simulates depression wasn’t lost on her, she muses that the struggle of her emotional conditions have helped her to appreciate the nuance of comedy, and she presses forward with some ideas that can help this budding design of gameplay flourish in today’s market of indie games.

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