Stardew Is Turning Your Kids Communist!

[PeripheralVisionary]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/04/is-stardew-valley-trying-to-turn-us-into-communist.html


Just thought you should know.

[𖤐Mori𖤐]

Lol I was thinking if I wanted to post this article or not, but I didn't. Good thing too, some one else did it for meh.

[Dee Twenty]

So I'm just going to assume the name "Paste Magazine" comes from the fact their staff is brain damaged from sniffing too much paste.

[dynastystar]

Originally posted by Dee Twenty:

So I'm just going to assume the name "Paste Magazine" comes from the fact their staff is brain damaged from sniffing too much paste. :htsmug:

sounds like it

[Seba]

It does have a really strong socialist vibe to it, I can agree on that. Also anarchist, why not? Both currents do speak about the value of liberty and taking care of the natural enviroment.

[Failure incarnate]

It's just a game about someone tending to it's chicken, giving diamonds the size of a toddler twice a week to woo the carpenter's daughter, let's not over-analyse the game shall we. :V

[Rio]

"And when it comes to the game’s evil Joja Corporation, ConcernedApe certainly isn’t afraid to bare those teeth, either. "

Are we playing the same game here? Joja ain't kicking people out of homes, poisoning the town water to mine for shale oil, Deforresting the secret woods to make issues of the rolling stone. Is Joja double crossing you at the last minute in an attempt to sieze your farm?


"However, instead of purchasing them with diverse bundles of seasonal goods, the player simply buys them outright for massive amounts of cash. All incentive to experiment thus evaporates; the player’s winning strategy amounts to little more than growing the maximum amount of the most profitable cash crop season in and season out. "

Uh huh, yeah finding the most cash efficiant layout, Figuring out the best crop each season, deciding which buildings are best, ect isn't experimenting. Experimenting is buying the building the bundles tell you and wining by just doing what it tells you to build/grow. Then being punished to wait a whole nother year if you missed anything, because mistakes are bad.

[Babylon]

There is also a pretty strong "you only get out whatever you put in" vibe...

To call the gifts you give people "ill-gotten" seems pretty harsh as you can't really steal from anyone that I've figure out. (trash rummaging and tree chopping aside)

Lastly, to make light on the "Cinderella story" of the game developer is also rough. It's the ULTIMATE story of capitalist success. Given a free market (and Steam is reasonably free) with sufficiently low barriers to entry, a talented individual with perserverence and a bit of luck and good timing can become successful.

I'm not sure what stick got put where with the writer, but I've found Stardew Valley to be a delightful reimagining of a genre of games from my youth that has gotten no real love from the PC genre. It's quirky and lovable, allows you to make choices, and doesn't force you to really do anything along the way.

[Dee Twenty]

Originally posted by Promise:

"And when it comes to the game’s evil Joja Corporation, ConcernedApe certainly isn’t afraid to bare those teeth, either. "

Are we playing the same game here? Joja ain't kicking people out of homes, poisoning the town water to mine for shale oil, Deforresting the secret woods to make issues of the rolling stone. Is Joja double crossing you at the last minute in an attempt to sieze your farm?

Well, I'm pretty convinced Joja is dumping radioactive waste in the sewers, otherwise Abigail's diet of rocks must have some really weird side effects for the sewers to be capable of mutating a carp into that freakish abomination I fished up down there. But to be fair that's just my personal hypothesis, it's not like the game expressly states it.

[cpc8472]

I'm not familiar with this digital rag so I can't tell if it's a just a lame attempt at humor or things are so slow they have nothing else to do but knock an indie game made by a single dev.

[Failure incarnate]

Originally posted by cpc8472:

I'm not familiar with this digital rag so I can't tell if it's a justj alame attempt at humor or things are so slow they have nothing else to do but knock an indie game made by a single dev.

Eh, it's a pretty generic e-zine, nothing especially bad and nothing especially good can be said about them, I think the author of this particular article tried extra-hard to sound intellectual since it's his very first article on that site.

I think he missed it.

[cpc8472]

Originally posted by I kiss Goats 💦:

Originally posted by cpc8472:

I'm not familiar with this digital rag so I can't tell if it's a justj alame attempt at humor or things are so slow they have nothing else to do but knock an indie game made by a single dev.

Eh, it's a pretty generic e-zine, nothing especially bad and nothing especially good can be said about them, I think the author of this particular article tried extra-hard to sound intellectual since it's his very first article on that site.

I think he missed it.

He must be Putin us on.

[Knight_of_Gallifrey]

*facepalm whilst giggling* cpc8472. You are terrible and should feel terrible. Quit Stalin and go home, you've been Putin off the harvest of all that kale for far too long.

[cpc8472]

Originally posted by Knight_of_Gallifrey:

*facepalm whilst giggling* cpc8472. You are terrible and should feel terrible. Quit Stalin and go home, you've been Putin off the harvest of all that kale for far too long.

I'll give you high Marx for your suggestion. Would you mind Lenin me a hand, comrade? Or are you just going to Crimea river?

[Colonel Martyr]

Originally posted by Babylon:

I'm not sure what stick got put where with the writer, but I've found Stardew Valley to be a delightful reimagining of a genre of games from my youth that has gotten no real love from the PC genre. It's quirky and lovable, allows you to make choices, and doesn't force you to really do anything along the way.

Well said, friend. Well said. Stardew Valley successfully builds on a genre from my childhood and successfully makes it its own and isn't just Not Harvest Moon. Stardew is not perfect (My main gripe is how bad the design of the arcade mini-games are) but it fluidly creates its own system and brings itself to PC in a fantastic way. I love CA's design in this game a lot.

[Drew P. Bawls]

Originally posted by Seba:

It does have a really strong socialist vibe to it, I can agree on that. Also anarchist, why not? Both currents do speak about the value of liberty and taking care of the natural enviroment.

I disagree, it very much presents an idealized picture of what capitalism is in the heads of its most prominent supporters, but it is in no way a game that espouses the ideals of the communal ownership of the means of production or the establishment of a workers democracy. These things are far beyond the scope of a little farming game like this, but nevertheless