Yeah, I'm taking it back.
It isn't really my goal with Caravel to be some kind of anti-censorship champion, but at the same time I don't feel I should be obliged to fix every little thing that could offend somebody. I actually spend a fair amount of thought on these things, and could give you guys a long list of ways I've been uh... sensitive, I guess.
Like for example, we rather carefully removed similarities between Native Americans and Goblins in the Eighth canon. I renamed a town on the Master Map of the Eighth because someone told me it sounded vaguely obscene in German.
And there's other things that I leave alone like "
tar baby"
, a room in KDD that looks slightly like genitalia to some people, or Beethro's questionable ethics that direct him to kill people. You can't please all the people all the time. You can't have knowledge of every stupid cultural hang-up on this planet.
Hmm. I did meet a guy at the Casuality conference who was a consultant in foreign cultures for gaming companies. It actually was a service he performed to check games for cultural appropriateness. But I'm dubious. I can't even figure out all the things that offend in the country that I lived in for 33 years. How could anybody figure it out for the entire world? You'd need a large staff of experts, at least one for every country in the world but often more to cover different regions and cultures of any given country. Then each expert would need to completely review the entire content of the game--images, text, recorded speech, symbols that show up in the level design.
...or people could just learn to not have kneejerk negative reactions to words, images, and symbols.
This has been a rant not directed at any person on this forum, but the world at large.
-Erik
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