Ok,
This monday, Imagination Is The Only Escape will be in the New York Times, so whoever gets it could you scan it for me?
So well to explain, I am working with Alten8 on Eternity's Child and Imagination Is The Only Escape, Eternity's Child will come out in europe and also the USA, and well Alten8 only work with Nintendo Europe not america, since they are a english developer.
Ok so from what I heard Nintendo USA doesn't want the game to come out in America.
The game is not finished and well I would like people to play it before, it's not violent it's something educational.
I wrote to Gamejew asking him what he thinks and this is his reply
As for the Holocaust game, I think it's a great idea, though I'm not totally clear on what the gameplay is going to be like. I think that if you put too much "learning" in it, too much reading, it may turn off a certain portion of your audience, especially the ones who need to learn the most. I would suggest taking a cue from games that use the environment to tell the story, try to avoid beating people over the head with facts.
Otherwise, there's been books, movies and tv shows about the holocaust, even a comic book (Maus), and so i think this totally makes sense.
Also another thing I would like to point out,
the profits that I make off this game I plan to donate them to try and stop the genocide in Darfur.
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/
This game was NOT create to be controversial, it was created to show that games can be educational.
I will not let it be released until it is perfect, and that alot of germans and jewish people play it and tell me what they think.
I do not want to offend anyone
Before anyone judges this game, I would like to talk with them before, this can be big and show the mainstream and Jack Thompson that games aren't just about murder and violence.
Games can deal with this shit.
Why doesn't Nintendo want this to come out here in the States? What's that all about? As long as it doesn't glamorize what the Nazis did (and from what I can tell it does no such thing), what's Nintendo's gripe with it?
I live in New York, and I will totally pick up a copy of the times tomorrow, and do my best to scan it.
I commend you for what you're doing Luc. I think this may be one of the only ways to show the general public that not all video games glamorize violence (I mean we know that but many clueless parents don't).
I also think it's great the game will be featured in the New York Times. The more games like yours can get mainstream exposure, the better. It's too bad that some of the more artistic games (ie Shadow of the Colossus etc) fell under most people's radar in the mainstream. But we certainly hear a lot about Grand Theft Auto...