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wolfnanaki · 1 year

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Goodbye Volcano High is GOTY because it answers the important question of "What memes would dinosaurs make?"

#Goodbye Volcano High #KO_OP #memes #video games

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rustybottlecap · 4 months

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I have a lot of respect and admiration for KO_OP. You know the saying "be the change you want in the world"? They are that saying applied to making videogames. We need more indie cooperatives like them.

#ko_op #ko op #voice acting #goodbye volcano high #gnog #depanneur nocturne #indie games #indie game studio #indie studio #cooperative #video game making #video game development #fuck ai #fuck ai voice acting #voice actors #video games

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runningpsychic · 1 month

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Why Goodbye Volcano High resonates with me as...

...a musician

As a musician, it's hard not to immediately identify with Fang. What musician doesn't want their music to be heard, to play at music festivals, and have music as their career. I can wax poetic about how music is about self expression and it doesn't matter if I have an audience, but in the end, I still want my music to be heard, and enjoyed. And Fang is on track to making this their entire career.

Making music has been a minor hobby for me. Even as a kid, I knew there's almost no chance I can make it as a musician, so I went down the route of being a software engineer instead. It's such a minor part of my life that I don't even bother identifying as a musician, I just fool around with instruments. But something about GVH ignited that passion in me, and during my first playthrough, I wrote six songs inspired by themes in the game. Even if I'll stay an amateur, I want to make the most from life, and not let the fire die. (See last section)

All that said, I felt very bad for Fang throughout the game. I know how tough the life of a full time musician is. The industry is just completely screwed. And unlike me, Fang doesn't have another option other than music. The game also drives it in that Fang's friends all have viable career paths, while Fang doesn't. But then, the meteor throws an interesting wrench into this, as now Fang is the only one who achieved their dreams. I'm not sure what the point of this paragraph is besides fuck capitalism, give musicians a living wage.

...an enby

Fang really made me more comfortable about being non-binary. It's amazing seeing enby representation that doesn't feel shoehorned in, or merely an afterthought. It's actually integral to the story. Both Fang and Sage struggle having their parents take their identities seriously, and that mirrors my own fears of not being taken seriously as an enby myself, which leads me to only come out as non-binary to my closest friends, and just remain a binary trans woman to everyone else.

It's honestly amazing to see everyone in Caldera Bay being accepting of the queer cast, like being queer isn't a big deal at all. And that's how it should be. Everyone just calls Fang by their name and pronouns (except their parents of course), and no one seems to mind that Reed brought Alvin to prom. This really makes me feel more comfortable about my identity, and I feel proud to be queer. We don't owe them normal.

...an immigrant

It's so rare to see stories about the intersection of being trans and being an immigrant, so when I read Rosa's story, I felt it must've been written by someone who also has first hand experience. There's a distinct feel from my family that me being trans is a "western" thing, not something they could ever understand. Or worse, that I'm being corrupted by "the west" in some way by moving there. There's so much extended family I can never see again because I'm now an abomination of the family tree.

I find it really difficult to talk about this as I fear I'd be misread as being racist for suggesting that my home country is more queerphobic or something, but that isn't my point. I just want to tell my story, and my experience of being alienated for both culture and gender, in both my origin and destination countries, is one that most folks can't emphasize with. (Venba also does do a good job with the culture part, so you should check that out too)

There's a separate rant about how this brand of queerphobia was actually planted by Christian missionaries and not at all "traditional culture", but that's for another time.

...someone struggling with mental health

I've been obsessed with the game for months since I played it. I went through what everyone calls "Dino depression", but I think it really helped me, and it was the game I needed to play at this moment in my life. I struggle with depression and burnout. At times it can be hard to know what the point is, or feel that any of this is worth it. The first few weeks after the game, I actually felt more depressed, as I thought about what the point of life is if it all is temporary anyway, and what I would do if a meteor were to hit in 8 months. And I was scared, because I felt like my life wasn't under my control. Over time, I've learned to think about it more positively. If life is temporary, then it's up to me to make the most of it. If life has no meaning, it's up to me to make my own meaning. I have amazing friends around me, and I still have tons of music to make.

#goodbye volcano high #gvh #transgender #nonbinary #musician #mental health #ko_op

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they-have-the-same-va · 3 months

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Mitsuru Kirijo in Persona 3 Reload shares a voice actress with Naomi from Goodbye Volcano High.

Voiced by Allegra Clark

(requested by @werewolf-cuddles)

#same voice actor #voice acting #persona 3 reload #persona #shin megami tensei #goodbye volcano high #atlus #ko_op #🇺🇸

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wormdramafever · 23 days

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KO_OP's studio director Saleem Dabbous recently shared his presentation about game making cooperatives for the Game Developers Conference (GDC).

Here's my GDC presentation on how @KOOPMode is structured and operated as a ~20 person cooperative! Please let me know if you have any thoughts or questions [x]

if you check this out and think "wow that seems insanely risky fuck that" let me introduce you to every company ever. nothing about the coop structure is more risky than a normal company but a lot of it is more equitable. [x]

coops don't inherently solve any of the risk or privilege required to survive in capitalism. They are another tool to empower workers to own their labour and be more directly in control of their work and to share in the profits of that✌️ [x]

#ko_op #cooperative #game making #game development #goodbye volcano high #gnog #depanneur nocturne #winding worlds #ridiculous fishing #gdc #game dev #game developers conference #video games #indie games #mobile games

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b3crew · 7 months

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REVIEW | "Goodbye Volcano High" | B3 - Boston Bastard Brigade

With its strong characters and beautiful soundtrack, Goodbye Volcano High is one of the strongest Western visual novels to come around in a long time. Read more about it in KBD's review.

#king baby duck #review #reviews #video games #visual novel #ko_op #goodbye volcano high #lgbt #lgbtqia #pc #ps4 #ps5 #boston bastard brigade #black compat

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racciimy · 6 months

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I just started playing Goodbye Volcano High and I’m only like 5 minutes in and holy shit I’m in love

#goodbye volcano high #I wanna make friends to talk about this with #I love the silly little gay dinos sm #gvh #KO_OP

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redsnerdden · 1 year

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Goodbye Volcano High Has Been Delayed To August 2023

Goodbye Volcano High Has Been Delayed To August 2023 #VideoGames #GoodbyeVolcanoHigh #Playstation

There is some unfortunate news coming in from KO_OP, the Dinosaur-themed narrative adventure game titled Goodbye Volcano High. It has been delayed to August 2023. In a new press release from KO_OP, the Montreal-Based Studio is having to delay its upcoming narrative adventure for three months. The reason? Because the studio couldn’t meet the June launch date without significant cuts to the…

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#Goodbye Volcano High #Indie Creators #Indie Games #KO_OP #LGBTQIA+#Narrative Adventures #Video Games

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sixeyesun · 10 months

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Goodbye Volcano High is a game that's had to overcome a lot of odds--Narrative reboots, fired writers, global pandemics, you name it and it's probably come up during its three year development.

Point is, it's been a long time leading up to its first widely-available demo, shown off on Steam for LudoNarraCon for four days between May 4th and May 8th.

I've been excited for this game for a long time and I played the demo multiple times: I even have some thoughts on it!

There are some who may feel provoked to ask, "Six Eye, why the hell would you release a video discussing a demo two months after it was available?" Well, life gets in the way of your best laid plans and more to the point I think the fact that this game's first demo after three years is something kind of significant and worthy of note.

This game had three years in the oven before they decided to disseminate it on a massive scale. So what did it do right? What did it do wrong?

Let's find out together.

#goodbye volcano high #KO_OP

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geekcavepodcast · 1 year

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Goodbye Volcano High Story Trailer

KO_OP’s Goodbye Volcano High is a narrative adventure/ rhythm game that follows Fang and friends through their final year of high school before the end of the world.

Goodbye Volcano High stars the voice talents of Lachlan Watson as Fang, Ozioma Akagha as Trish, Mark Whitten as Reed, Abe Bueno-Jallad as Naser, and Allegra Clark as Naomi.

Goodbye Volcano High releases for PlayStation 4/5 and PC via Steam on June 15, 2023.

#goodbye volcano high #ko_op #lachian watson #ozioma akagha #mark whitten #abe bueno-jallad #allegra clark #state of play #TGCLiz

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max-oats · 10 months

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🐀 hi i'm max!

i'm a 3d artist occasionally, game developer often, and capybara enthusiast always

my work looks like this! u may have seen it on twitter but its ok if u haven't. i was making a game about laundry but now i work at ko_op games!

🐀 portfolio 🐀 twitter 🐀

#pinned

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wolfnanaki · 8 months

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Goodbye Volcano High | August 29, 2023

The world’s about to explode. Just in time for senior year.

#Goodbye Volcano High #KO_OP #indie games #LGBT #dinosaurs #video games

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rustybottlecap · 1 year

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So recently I remembered that weird af game trailer from years ago during the PS5 reveal conference, featuring anthro characters one of wich I doubly-erroneously thought was a bird-girl.

Turns out the game is called Goodbye Volcano High and it got delayed several times, but it’s actually coming out in a few months as of this post, and something I read about its premise has me OBSESSED.

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So the characters are actually anthropomorphic dinosaurs, and while I don’t prefer this kind of anthro animal designs (reptiles with human hair), turns out they are like this FOR A REASON:

The meteor is coming.

The meteor that killed the dinosaurs.

Everyone in this game is going to die. And the protagonists are teenagers, who were made to believe they had a whole life ahead of them. And the adults would rather just have everyone go on with their routine like nothing’s wrong.

So the protagonists have to decide what to do with the short time they have left, confront their identities and be true to themselves. The pterodactyl protagonist Fang, for example, is non-binary and part of a rock band. Depending on the player’s decisions the rock songs they are composing and playing throughout the game will change.

The paralels with the pandemic and other recent events as experienced by today’s youth are inevitable, and likely played a big factor during its development... yet the original trailer I mentioned in the first paragraph (not the one I posted) came out in 2020. They already had this idea before the pandemic.

While doom and gloom can be found at any point in history, I wonder if at least some of the people involved in the game grew up during the 80s and very early 90s, near the end of the Cold War, back when mutual annihilation via nuclear weapons seemed inevitable, even to little kids.

It doesn’t take much digging to find examples of dinosaurs being used irl to cope with the Cold War fears of nuclear armaggedon. They could be used as metaphors, how nuclear weapons were going to “take us back to the stone age like in The Flintstones”, or comparing it with the meteor that killed the dinosaurs (The 1988 song “Walk the Dinosaur” by Was Not Was, wich many may remember from the old Super Mario Bros. movie and Ice Age 3, is actually about this; there are some clues in the lyrics but the band has outright confirmed it).

On the other hand, dinosaurs had a rise in popularity during the 80s due to new discoveries, and served as nice escapism. Why fear a nuke when you could be crying your heart out while watching The Land Before Time? The 80s was even the decade when the theory that it was a meteor that killed the dinosaur became mainstream. Associaction!

So anyway... the game is finally coming out June 15 August 29, but I want to play it NAOW!!1! Let me laugh in the face of the apocalypse with my dinofriends!

Also if you were turned off from this game due to some shitty content online, know that it was made by a vocal minority trying to sabotage it for being LGBTQ+ friendly. Just ignore them. Do not make this about them. The game will stand on its own.