Summary
Stellar Bladelaunched last week, yet you wouldn’t believe it with all the talk surrounding the title to do withcensorship and the game’s jiggle physics. If you were, let’s say, the developer of a cozy indie farming sim that had previously shown very little concern about how bouncy their female characters' chests are, now would be the worst time to make a comment about it.
However, the team behindindie title Farm Folksthought it would be a terrific idea, and recently put out an incredibly strange tweet showing off varying levels of jiggle physics on the game’s female characters, asking fans which version had the “perfect” jiggle. To make things even stranger, this tweet was followed up by another asking fans if they wanted to see “what 150% looks like”, seemingly sexualizing one of their characters to an audience that has absolutely no interest in that kind of content.
If we’re being generous, it was most likely an ill-thought-out joke that spilled over onto the Farm Folks official Twitter account, with the developers greatly misunderstanding what its fans are actually interested in the title for. On the other hand,jiggle physics and “censorship” over sexuality is all the rage at the minutethanks to Stellar Blade and Eve, and developer Crytivo may have thought it could muscle in on that particular audience.
Farm Folks Developer Crytvio Has Apologized Over Jiggle Physics Tweet
Following a tonne of backlash from the game’s largely female audience, Crytivo has unsurprisingly deleted the tweet and madean official statement apologizing for their postthat it admits “crossed a line.” According to the apology, the developer had “received concerns” about the game’s jiggle physics in the past and was asking the community what felt more appropriate, though it admitted the “150% jiggle” comment was out of line.
That would be enough to sweep the entire thing under the rug, had the Farm Folks community manager not made some rather explosive comments on the game’s Discord channel. Shared by Twitter user Pilnock, the community manager going by the username Kirara Lara claimed that the people offended by the tweet are simply “complainers”, sees “nothing wrong” with the tweet, and that only “pervy people” are making jiggle physics a sexualized issue.
Whatever your stance is on jiggle physics as a whole, I think most of us can agree that it’s a rather foolish thing to focus on when your audience simply wants some cozy farming sim fun, and Crytivo has managed to burn a lot of the goodwill that it’s raised over the years of development by doing so. Hopefully, Crytivo learns from the error, and actually understands why its fanbase is upset.
