FASCball

Intro

FASCball is a local 2-player game of football!The players must score goals, while avoiding the fascists and their discourse!

The game is inspired by a workshop on fascism in South America. I had realized that many of the tactics used by fascists in South America very much resembled the ones used by “nationalists” in the Middle-East. I remembered football was something both areas of the world also shared. And so was born FASCball: A game of football against the fasc, where you play football, and they have guns.

Of course, the project has expanded a bit beyond its original premise (and will continue in the future), but the core idea is here.

Controls

Move the players using the WASD (Player 1) and arrow keys (Player 2), or using the analog or d-pad input on a controller.
You can use the K (Player 1), Spacebar (Player 2), or any face buttons on a controller to kick, although it doesn’t have any actual impact on the game (as of this writing).

Content Warning The game features many code-words and dog-whistles used by bigots to justify their actions. These include racist, sexist, antisemitic, islamophobic, homophobic, transphobic words and acts.

They are presented here as a way to expose their hateful rhetoric, but please be mindful of your well-being

For further reading on political dog-whistles:
Offensive political dog whistles: you know them when you hear them. Or do you?
Dog-Whistle Politics (Wikipedia)
Dog-Whistle Politics (Rational Wiki)

Credits

• Programming & Design: mstfacmly

• Art:

  • Marc-André Toupin - Character sprites

  • Kenney Sports Spack & Top-Down Tanks assets

• Music: wyver9

• Sfx: Little Robot Sound Factory