shocking update from previous threadok all I saw was "dino" and a discussion about dumb indie developers so you made me remember Goodbye Volcano High and you sent me down a brief rabbit hole
- embarrassing teen angst furry scalie game from canada is inexplicably shown at the PS5 reveal in june 2020
- "KO_OP is a Canadian studio that is just as enigmatic as the games it produces. They place a heavy emphasis on equality. Hence, every person earns the same salary. Furthermore, decisions are made as a group, and everyone has equal input. This is vastly different from the usual hierarchical structure of businesses."
- "The protagonist, Fang, is a non-binary dinosaur."
- internet finds out that one of the game's writers is Kate Gray, a former Kotaku writer who posted CG child porn of harry potter and pokemon characters to the front page of Kotaku
- based on all of the above, internet gives the game a stern side eye
- developers, very sad, lock their steam discussion forums immediately after the reveal and hide in discord
- game completely disappears from all radars
- 4channers create a full parody game of Goodbye Volcano High before it releases, before even a non-cinematic trailer has been shown, called Snoot Game, which is released on itch.io in june 2021
- canadian furry developers extremely mad, demand that itch.io removes the 100% legal and fair use game...which itch.io does
- Snoot Game developers create their own website and continue distributing the game anyway
- canadian furry developers aggressively ban any mention of Snoot Game in their discord server
- in their first update since the reveal, last month in august, Goodbye Volcano High was delayed to vaguely 2022
I said to myself you know what fuck it and played this parody game
turns out it is actually good for a visual novel, if you like visual novels
it starts out silly and memey but by the end the characters are well developed and you care about what is happening to them, and it actually has a message and I really wouldn't call it a parody other than the fact it uses existing character designs
four vastly different endings, one
really dark
main thrust of the game is
spoiler (click to show/hide)
the main girl doesn't know who she really is and due to toxic friends has chosen an off-the-shelf non-personality, where she just acts as she thinks she's supposed to act, but is a replacement for actually finding/knowing yourself
and you can help her work through this stuff, most effectively by getting over yourself and helping her get over herself with the help of others
honestly I guarantee you this game has a better story and themes than the real Goodbye Volcano High will ever have
so yeah, development on Snoot Game started a few days after the real game was revealed, and 30 anons working on it managed to release it almost a year to the day of the first reveal
they want to polish it up and release it on Steam and other platforms, where hopefully the Goodbye Volcano High devs won't be able to do anything about it despite their rage since it's free and clearly a parody
the fan game is so popular it has its own booru with 3000 artworks, shockingly most of it not porn, just memes and fandom junk
oh yeah also some guy accidentally emailed himself pics of the pterodactyl girl using his work email in a HIPAA environment, where the IT guys and his bosses all saw them and now consider him a pervert, and also his wife found them and they're going through counseling
meanwhile:the actual developers spend their time harassing what remains of their own fans for accidentally referring to the lead dinosaur girl as a girl
