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‘The Shorter Games With Worse Graphics Bundle’ is now live on itch.io, aimed at supporting smaller, independent developers in gaming.
It features 32 games in total, made by 25 different game developers. The bundle involves a wide range of games, including
Kaiju Stadium, a sports strategy sim involving dinosaurs and aliens, and
Homing, an epistolary game played from the perspective of a carrier pigeon.
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The bundle is named after the phrase “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people paid more to work less and I’m not kidding”. This has become a meme in some sections of the gaming community, following repeated stories of crunch and poor working conditions on the industry’s biggest AAA games.