The developer of RAPE DAY said in a recent interview that he’ll be uploading a newer version of the game with the initially excluded “Baby Killing Scene” on The Pirate Bay. The initial version already exists on the torrent indexing website.

“I didn’t expect it to get any attention”, the developer said. “I was constantly changing the description of the game and suddenly it blew up.” Even after all of the controversies, the developer has decided to update the game and support it.

According to the developer, he studied Steam’s rules and he wondered what type of games can he make within those rules. “It’s not just about following the rules”, he said. “It’s also about not getting them(storefronts, in this case, Steam) negative press. So once you get enough negative press, well yeah, they’ll ban you because it’s not a good monetary decision for them.”

RAPE DAY is a visual novel which allows you to take control of a serial rapist in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, raping and killing women at your will. The game was approved and listed on Steam, with a release date for 1st March 2019. However, following several discussions, petitions and internet outcries, Steam delisted the game and “decided not to distribute this game on Steam.”

“Everyone can get this on ThePirateBay.org”, the developer said. “I’m gonna upload the newer version that’s got the baby killing scene I removed”.

Many mainstream outlets including BBC, The Conversation, Independent, Fortune and Variety covered the game, the controversy around it, the internet’s reaction and its delisting from Steam.

From what the developer claims, many people emailed him with phrases such as “you should die” and this game is “pure evil”. Many rape victims wrote to him as well, saying that the game is terrible and that they should get rid of it. He even said that most of the people who signed the petitions were women, and possibly rape survivors.

So how did he come up with the idea of creating a game of such sort?

The first question he asked himself was “what would sell?” and in the conclusion, he discovered two “clickbait things for news”, as he claims – sex and violence. Sex and violence combined, rape. “Rape would be the ultimate game”, he said.

RAPE DAY is a visual novel containing over 500 images and seven thousand words, or dialogues. The baby killing scene was initially a part of the game. However, after many early testers expressed their concerns about the “child exploitative” scene, it was removed from the final release version.

The developer further went on to speak about the development process of the game. According to what he claims, he has an actual job, which he hasn’t been fired from, and that RAPE DAY was a part-time project for around two years, 5-6 days a week for almost an hour and a half. “It was supposed to be a dark comedy”, the developer claims. Apart from him, only one of his friends knew about the development of RAPE DAY as they “both [were] trying to be successul in something. I don’t know, it seems like a pretty bad decision. ‘Cause if the information got out, fuck my life.”

RAPE DAY was developed on DAZ 3D, a software that provides rigged 3D human models for you to pose them, and modify them accordingly.

Speaking of women and their reaction towards the game, the developer said, “There are women who read like erotic novels and a lot of them are rape fantasies”. According to him, forty per cent of women have fantasized about rape. Many women even wrote to him saying that they’re looking forward to playing Rape Day and that a ton of women were into it.

What did people who played the game say?

Initially, the developer thought RAPE DAY won’t get banned. He thought it couldn’t get any media attention and that it will just kind of fly under the radar. He understood the rules and he studied every game who’s ever gotten banned on Steam and what Steam said about why they got banned.

“Some people have played it and the general feedback I get is like people that read the news and thought it was like a full, you know, a simulation like Grand Theft Auto type game and they’re like, no, this is shit”, the developer said. The game was indeed horrible and a low-effort product.

“The conclusion I eventually came to is that censorship is actually the thing that causes a lot of violence because it creates these echo chambers”, he said. The developer confesses his choice of making RAPE DAY as a “pretty bad decision”. However, he’s thinking of making a porn game that doesn’t get banned in the future.

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