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What is a joke hack?

Doesn't C3 have an award called "Best Joke Hack"? Well, what exactly is a joke hack as far as that award is concerned? What do I have to have in a hack to qualify it as a "joke hack"?

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your simplistic human mind cannot possibly comprehend the complexities of my thoughts
You need to go meta and draw attention to SMW hack design itself. Design things "badly" or make fun of SMWC politics.

An example of a joke hack would be one that uses entirely broken graphics (cut off tiles, garbage tile sprites, etc) yet still makes a playable and enjoyable game.
Joke hacks include silly cutscenes, ridiculous palettes, and humorous parodies of popular design styles and aesthetics. So basically VLDCX
A hack that is supposed to be funny (and usually short)
an intentionally shitty and/or satirical hack made for the sake of making fun of bad hacks
A hack that is a joke?

Any hack that isn't meant to be taken seriously can qualify as a joke hack. A better question would be what makes a good joke hack. I don't think I can give a definitve answer to that, but I'll say it should:

-Actually be funny
-Include references that most of the comunity (or at least you target audience) can understand, but...
-Also be original. Don't just use the same overused jokes we all know, or if you do, give them a twist.
Throw in some floating munchers for people who have been here the longest as they always get a laugh from that.

I'm joking of course but a lot of joke hacks over the years do feature munchers to parody the fact that floating munchers equals bad level design.
Here's a joke hack I made for C3 2015 if anyone's interested.

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