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Doxy: A Roleplaying Game of Sex and Skulduggery

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Freud, Sigmund. 1960 [1905]. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Ed. James Strachey. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Tran-Gervat, Yen-Mai. 2014. Pastiche. In Encyclopedia of Humor, ed. Salvatore Attardo, 554–556. Los Angeles, London, et al.: Sage Publications. This contribution focuses on the game Uddertale (2016), developed by the artist Doxy for The Poundry, a young distributor of online sex games. As its title suggests, Uddertale, is a spoof of the indie hit Undertale (Fox 2015), an adventure role-playing game which received numerous accolades for its originality and humour. In this chapter, I pay attention, firstly, to the parodic and pastiche aspects of Uddertale’s relationship to Undertale. Secondly, I focus on the palimpsestic web that connects the two games to the 1999 film American Pie. Through this analysis, I ask how gamic parodic humour comes to differ from other forms of video game humour, or parodic humour at large, when it becomes part of the greater intermedial agenda of translating, adapting, or transforming an existing game into a playable pornographic object. Ultimately, this double case study allows me to highlight an especially troubling aspect of humour in general: its ability to maintain contradictory ethical positions in suspension, with no resolution in sight. KeywordsBooth, Paul. 2014. Slash and Porn: Media Subversion, Hyper-articulation, and Parody. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 28 (3): 396–409. Berlant, Lauren. 2007. On the Case. Critical Inquiry 33 (4): 663–672. https://doi.org/10.1086/521564.

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