Quote:Social Justice Warriors
About This Game

Social Justice Warriors is a satirical role-playing game that transforms the standard medieval fantasy heroes of RPGs into social media crusaders facing an endless horde of internet trolls.

This week marks one-year after the original release of Social Justice Warriors. I made the game in April 2014 after seeing an image circulating that said to ignore what a group of people had to say because they were "social justice warriors." Since I saw the increasingly frequent back and forth online arguments as two people dueling on the ramparts, I translated it into the form of a videogame to make people on both sides take a look at why they do it from the simplified perspective of gameplay mechanics.

Social Justice Warriors expresses frustration with how people use divisive labels – like “SJW” and “troll” – to discredit and silence each other. No matter what social values you have, attacking and ridiculing other people not only fails to achieve progress but has an additional effect of escalating the conflict while exhausting your patience and eroding your reputation.