Protip: If you’re developing a hangman homebrew DS game, make sure that you do not depict what looks like a black man with a noose around his neck hanging from a tree. The only way this screenshot could look worse is if the programmer added a crowd of bedsheet ghosts by the tree and a burning plus sign in the horizon.

I don’t believe Tassu, who entered Hangman into Neoflash’s Summer coding competition, set out to present this insensitive scene. His home country of Finland, as far as I know, doesn’t share the U.S.’s embarrassing history of lynchings, so the thought likely never crossed his mind.

Lord Graga’s homebrew GBA game Klan Wars, however…

[Note: The mystery word in the above screenshot is not the original text; I photoshopped that in.]

See also: “Oh, herrow!”, The terrible, racist homebrew game that didn’t win Neoflash’s coding competition

[Via DS Scene]

tags / hangman / homebrew / racism / finland / tassu / neoflash / ec

Flashcart manufacturer Neoflash holds a biannual competition inviting DS, GBA, and PSP coders to submit their homemade games and applications to win cash prizes and Neoflash products. I’ve featured several entries from the company’s most recent contest, such as colorful platformer Natura No Story and the racy SutraDS.

Neoflash announced its winners this morning, but one DS title was missing from the roster of submitted entries:

Ported from the TI83+ by Dutch programmer Romaap, this game’s premise is simple (and awful) — earn points by positioning the gun above a black character and shooting him in the head. You lose points when you miss or when you decide not to be a contemptible human being.

Romaap insists he didn’t make the game to offend others:

“My mate made the original discrimi****** for the scientific calculator TI83+. I did not made [sic] this to anger people, my apologies if I do. This is my first game for NDS so don’t expect anything good. I’m not good at graphics either.”

The Neoflash community scolded the ignorant coder, and removed all traces of the game from its forums. Romaap later resubmitted the game with a new title, Shooting Range, also replacing the character sprite with a soda can. “I hope nobody thinks shooting cans is racism,” he said.

“‘The previous version’ was a mistake, I’m very sorry. I did not thought [sic] about the consequences,” Romaap explained.

This is actually the second racially intolerant homemade game I’ve come across for the DS, the first being Olympic Battlefields. And as long as we’re we’re pointing out hateful DS games, don’t forget about the first homophobic homebrew title to hit the handheld, RanAway.

tags / racism / homebrew / neoflash / romaap / dutch / ec