stinkygoat (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} stinkygoat) wrote,@ 2007-05-31 02:44:00 |
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So I think we are all we wanted to be
on the road to release... but it's amazing really that we've had to vouch so explicitly for the fact that we are not in any way offensive, or explicit, or whatever... really, we aren't, we're so abstract that nothing of what we do could even remotely be construed as explicit.
I had to give this reply to a question:
"it doesn't get suddenly any different or more suggestive than what we have shown there - it is after all an abstract game, it's just shapes shooting shapes and firework explosions, there's no realism and no blood and no sex or anything... I don't know what more we can show except a video of all the 100 levels demonstrating that's that is all we are?
I do understand the need for innocense to be explicit, these days, but I really don't see how it is possible to be more explicitly innocent than we already are. The game is just geometric shapes shooting at geometric shapes, and fireworks, and no possibility for blood, nudity, explicit violence, or anything else that could be offensive at all, really. We're not literal, there is nothing in what we portray that can be tied to any aspect of the real world. I don't know how we could be more abstract or more inoffensive. I never wanted to create anything "violent". SG is more about creating an interactive firework display than it is about "killing" things. It's about making "shooting" be a constructive thing rather than a destructive thing.
I don't know how to explain that except through evident intent and the game itself. All I want from SG is for it to be harmless and beautiful."
and that's true, SG really is just geometric shapes shooting at other geometric shapes; there are fireworks, bot no blood; nothing really that could translate into the real world at all. No blood, no dying creatures, just things intersecting with other things and fireworks as a result. But on the ratings forms, and in the minds of those judging what we've done, there appears to be no setting for "abstract shooter, none of the above is relevant" and I have to go through forms asserting that there is no sex amongst my geometric objects, no nudity of my neon triangles, and no blood spatters from sundering those polygons.
Can we not just have a "clearly does not apply" tick box on the submission form? Please?
on the road to release... but it's amazing really that we've had to vouch so explicitly for the fact that we are not in any way offensive, or explicit, or whatever... really, we aren't, we're so abstract that nothing of what we do could even remotely be construed as explicit.
I had to give this reply to a question:
"it doesn't get suddenly any different or more suggestive than what we have shown there - it is after all an abstract game, it's just shapes shooting shapes and firework explosions, there's no realism and no blood and no sex or anything... I don't know what more we can show except a video of all the 100 levels demonstrating that's that is all we are?
I do understand the need for innocense to be explicit, these days, but I really don't see how it is possible to be more explicitly innocent than we already are. The game is just geometric shapes shooting at geometric shapes, and fireworks, and no possibility for blood, nudity, explicit violence, or anything else that could be offensive at all, really. We're not literal, there is nothing in what we portray that can be tied to any aspect of the real world. I don't know how we could be more abstract or more inoffensive. I never wanted to create anything "violent". SG is more about creating an interactive firework display than it is about "killing" things. It's about making "shooting" be a constructive thing rather than a destructive thing.
I don't know how to explain that except through evident intent and the game itself. All I want from SG is for it to be harmless and beautiful."
and that's true, SG really is just geometric shapes shooting at other geometric shapes; there are fireworks, bot no blood; nothing really that could translate into the real world at all. No blood, no dying creatures, just things intersecting with other things and fireworks as a result. But on the ratings forms, and in the minds of those judging what we've done, there appears to be no setting for "abstract shooter, none of the above is relevant" and I have to go through forms asserting that there is no sex amongst my geometric objects, no nudity of my neon triangles, and no blood spatters from sundering those polygons.
Can we not just have a "clearly does not apply" tick box on the submission form? Please?
