Genital Jousting devs wanted the game to challenge toxic masculinity

Genital jousting is a sex game about competing in various challenges as a colored flaccid penis. It's also about challenging negative stereotypes surrounding manhood, as the developers explain in a recent making-of feature. Evan 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. 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. "What we wanted, ideally, was to convince someone who could've harbored some toxic masculinity that we were friends of theirs. 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. "At some point we'd almost earn a trust through that, which we'd then burn by, particularly towards the end of the game, showing what we felt was a better kind of masculinity."

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