Subverting Genres: I Think I Rogue-Like You
summary
Argues that breaking specific genre affordances produces memorable mechanics and marketing: demonstrates with Starcolt’s Best Friend Forever, a dating-sim/simulation hybrid that makes the dog the narrative and strategic co‑protagonist, implements a real‑time dog state, petting haptics on Switch, and an OkCupid‑style character creation; this yields a clear USP (players flock to pet the dog), causes some PR confusion (compared to Doki Doki), and proves the subversion works as a discoverable hook in a crowded market.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 17:26the issue with generic genres
- 24:35example 1: undertale
- 26:11dokidoki literature club
- 28:23typing of the dead
- 29:53example 4: dead space
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