{"id":19829,"date":"2025-08-20T09:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/consume-me-the-highly-personal-game-about-feeling-stupid-fat-and-ugly-in-high-school\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:37:57","slug":"consume-me-the-highly-personal-game-about-feeling-stupid-fat-and-ugly-in-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/consume-me-the-highly-personal-game-about-feeling-stupid-fat-and-ugly-in-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Consume Me, the highly personal game about feeling \u2018stupid, fat and ugly\u2019 in high school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenny Jiao Hsia\u2019s award-winning coming-of-age tale is a charming look at a teen trying her best to stay on top of things<\/p>\n

If you visited the V&A\u2019s Design\/Play\/Disrupt exhibition<\/a> in 2018, you may have played an interesting minigame collection, in which you fought wobbly physics to feed a girl named Jenny, using a Tetris-style board to achieve the perfect calorie amount, and then twisting her into pilates poses.<\/p>\n

Almost seven years later, the full version of Consume Me, which won this year\u2019s Independent Games festival grand prize, is set for a September release. According to developer Jenny Jiao Hsia, the game has become a semiautobiographical tale about how she felt \u201cstupid, fat and ugly\u201d in high school. What started as a collection of minigames about Hsia\u2019s struggles with dieting and disordered eating grew into a game that looks at the many facets of her life as a teenager, including her relationship with her mother \u2013 who appears accompanied by Persona-style boss battle music and always finds a reason to nag \u2013 as well as her insecurities around her first long-term relationship.<\/p>\n

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\nJenny Jiao Hsia\u2019s award-winning coming-of-age tale is a charming look at a teen trying her best to stay on top of things
\nIf you visited the V&A\u2019s Design\/Play\/Disrupt exhibition in 2018, you may have played an interesting minigame collection, in which you fought wobbly physics to feed a girl named Jenny, using a Tetris-style board to achieve the perfect calorie amount, and then twisting her into pilates poses.
\nAlmost seven years later, the full version of Consume Me, which won this year\u2019s Independent Games festival grand prize, is set for a September release. According to developer Jenny Jiao Hsia, the game has become a semiautobiographical tale about how she felt \u201cstupid, fat and ugly\u201d in high school. What started as a collection of minigames about Hsia\u2019s struggles with dieting and disordered eating grew into a game that looks at the many facets of her life as a teenager, including her relationship with her mother \u2013 who appears accompanied by Persona-style boss battle music and always finds a reason to nag \u2013 as well as her insecurities around her first long-term relationship. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenny Jiao Hsia\u2019s award-winning coming-of-age tale is a charming look at a teen trying her best to stay on top of things If you visited the V&A\u2019s Design\/Play\/Disrupt exhibition in 2018, you may have played an interesting minigame collection, in which you fought wobbly physics to feed a girl named Jenny, using a Tetris-style board …<\/p>\n

Consume Me, the highly personal game about feeling \u2018stupid, fat and ugly\u2019 in high school<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}