The rumors you've heard are true.
SiSSYFiGHT is coming back - if we can make our Kickstarter campaign!
Three of the original SiSSYFiGHT creators - Ranjit Bhatnagar, Naomi Clark, and Eric Zimmerman - are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to re-launch SiSSYFiGHT.
Funds from the Kickstarter will be used to re-code the entire game to update it for today's web browsers. Indie gaming website Venus Patrol will be hosting the game. We are also releasing the entire source code under a Creative Commons license. You can read more about the effort - and make a contribution - here on the Kickstarter page.
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See you soon on the playground - we hope!
- Cassie, Claudia, and Pug (Ranjit, Naomi, and Eric)
We hosted a SiSSYFiGHT play session live on twitch.tv last Friday, May 17 We played a few rounds of sissyfight on the creaky old game, and answered questions for viewers. You can watch a video of the session at http://www.twitch.tv/sissyfight2000/videos?kind=past_broadcasts
The Kickstarter campaign is underway, and so far so good! Thanks everyone for the support. Help spread the word! If we make our target, we announce some exciting stretch goals to expand the game.
We've been getting some excellent press on SiSSYFiGHT. It seems the cultural politics of little girls fighting on a playground are just as controversial today as they were in 1999! Have a read.
- Game developers revive Sissyfight as an open-source online game about sexism
- - Dean Takashi, Venturebeat
- Sissyfight is an uncomfortable lesson in gender representation, bullying, and social survival
- - Sophie Prell, Penny Arcade
- Sissyfight is the perfect kickstarter for those who wish to be mean little girls on the playground
- - Matt Hawkins, gameranx
- SiSSYFiGHT 2000 to return to the debate about sexism
- - Chris Priestman, Indie Statik
- A brand new kickstarter for a quirky old game called SiSSYFiGHT 2000
- - Allisa James, DualShockers
- Return of a revolution: Sissyfight is back
- - Leigh Alexander, Gamasutra
- Who's up for a SiSSYFiGHT?
- - Benjy Bates, Fund This Game
- Reviving and open-sourcing Sissyfight 2000, the psychological schoolyard web game
- - Samit Sarkar, Polygon