Breakup Bonanza: A Dumping Simulator
Breakup Bonanza: a Dumping Simulator
Have you ever felt like you needed to get out of a toxic relationship and you did not know how to approach it safely? Well, now you will. Try to get away without hurting your hopefully soon-to-be-ex's fragile masculinity, or stay stuck forever!
TW: gaslighting, bad discussion culture, implied violence
This game was developed at the Klagenfurt 7th Winter Klujam. The topic was "Caution: Fragile". Diversifiers: Handmade graphics (scanned and reworked backgrounds), incompetent villain, unexpected genre (dating-sim)
Developers:
- Emanuele Artioli: Programming, Art Style, Drawing Picasso, Magic Mastermind
- Christian Bauer: Programming, Writing, drew a Pizza and got hungry, Professionally confused, Part-time cat feeder
- Marie Biedermann(Marie - itch.io): Game Design, Banner/Cover Design, Writing, Overall Sweetheart and Fashion Icon
- Ellie Chraibi (chrabz - itch.io): Music, Writing, Sparkles
- Daniele Lorenzi: Programming, Game Design, Gameplay, Italian Sunshine
- Francesco Marcuzzi (SgtCondiment - itch.io): Game Design, Coding, Writing, Giving cookies to people
- Ylva Schütz (Tan_Tan - itch.io): Game Design, Background Art, part-time manager, complained about the inconsequential problem
- Shivi Vats (Zarroc - itch.io): Programmer, Fragility Breaker, Solving inconsequential problems, got a water bottle that one time
Updated 20.03.2024 (one more character, typos, added facts about violence in relationships)
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There is a thin line between making fun of something and raising awareness about serious issues in society with (dark) humour. I think the developing team of Breakup Bonanza did a great job on representing toxic masculinity and how it affects safety in relationships. Before I played the game, I was actually thinking about a certain way the game *could* end, and I was very pleasantly surprised when it was included! I think the game leaves a lot of space for further works and ideas about addressing gender (in)equality. Great job!
Hello, hello (: Thank you so much for your thoughtful words and your time in playing and commenting! We really appreciate the feedback and especially that you recognised the fine line we tried to follow. Have a wonderful day <3
A very important game nowadays because male toxic violent relationships are a thing. Would say the best game on the Jam 10/10 thank you very much!
Woah that's high praise! Thank you so much, we are very happy about your comment :D