Tic Tac Toe Online Should Have an Easy Mode for the Mentally Atypical, Womb-Americans, and Others Not as Good as Me.
Games should be equally fun for everyone at all times
Friends, colleagues, and random strangers on the internet:
Playing Tic Tac Toe Online, the newest online multiplayer game from the mobile game juggernaut Blooz Mobile, is a frustrating experience for me as a cis white male who loves people of all skill levels, womb statuses, and ethnic backgrounds.
While I love that the game features a wide array of diverse folks of all shapes and sizes, and gender ideas, and skin colorage – and LGBTQ+ individuals, and the differently superabled – there’s one problem: it doesn’t have an easy mode.
You see, as a cis white male who loves everyone (who agrees with me), I play Tic Tac Toe Online all the time, and I win, all the time. I’m really good at Tic Tac Toe, especially online. If I were a worse person, this would make me happy. But I’m quite virtuous, so instead, I do a privilege check.
But for traditionally marginalized groups – or people with different tic tac toe playing styles – Tic Tac Toe Online can feel overwhelming. It’s just a bunch of 3×3 boxes, and if you don’t get three in a row, you lose. There’s no easy mode where you can just keep going and going and going and going until you finally win, like life should have.
So here’s my plea to Blooz Mobile: Tic Tac Toe Online needs an easy mode, or at least an option for me, as a cis white male privileged player who is really good at tic tac toe – to lose to someone who sucks, through no fault of their own. Maybe, I dunno, a “forfeit” button?
It would be great if this option were gender identity-, womb carryation-, ethnic association-, and mental wellness-status inclusive.
Please, developers of Tic Tac Toe Online– don’t be like evil capitalist pig AAA publishers who exploit anyone who isn’t a perfect 10 at tic tac toe. Add an easy mode, or I will stop playing, and I will complain, and I will write an article about how Tic Tac Toe Online isn’t inclusive enough for cis white males like me who never lose. Oops, too late.
