âIs Your Masculinity Threatened? Then Youâre Not Man Enough to Playâ: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 and Beyond the Gender Challenge

Peter Freer; Robin Skinner

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âIs your masculinity threatened? Then you're not man enough to playâ, the tagline for Adult Swimâs 2010 game Robot Unicorn Attack, boldly captures the challenge the game offers. Robot Unicorn Attack ( rua ) confronts the playerâs personal boundaries through its use of intentionally feminised visual material and the use of the gay club anthem âAlwaysâ by Erasure. By comparison, its sequel, Robot Unicorn Attack 2 developed three years later, was forged under circumstances that fundamentally changed the trajectory of the game and franchise. This paper highlights how the fan reception of the original game altered the context under which the sequel was made, and how concepts of gender and choice informed the sequelâs design development.

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