We’d be telling jokes that would be crass and would be funny, and make it feel like the game wasn’t trying to convince anyone of any particular stance,” Greenwood explains. By Shaun Prescott News Down under will get to play the penis game, too. “What we wanted, ideally, was to convince someone who could’ve harbored some toxic masculinity that we were friends of theirs. Genital Jousting is releasing in Australia when it leaves Early Access this week. Gavin, Michael, and Jack watch Ryan play through the story of genital John, a willy on a mission to find a date for his high school reunion. In the back-half, they discuss the subtext and nuance of the story mode, and using it to address toxic masculinity, albeit in a slightly subtle way.
It’s also about challenging negative stereotypes surrounding manhood, as the developers explain in a recent making-of feature.Įvan Greenwood, the Creative Director of Free Lives, and Richard Pieterse, a now former developer from the studio, sat down with gaming documentary-makers NoClip to talk about the origins and meaning behind Genital Jousting. Genital jousting is a sex game about competing in various challenges as a colored flaccid penis. Genital Jousting Everything about Genital Jousting tells it should be awful, but it stands up as a great example of what happens if you take a ridiculous idea and absolutely, 100 believe in it.