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Columbine RPG Kickout Has Repercussions
As a direct result of the removal of the Columbine RPG from the Slamdance game competition, two games (so far) have pulled out of the judging process. The Forge has extensive commentary on the first pullout (the game Braid), as well as the removal of fl0w from the competition. From the article: "Regardless of the artistic merit, the facts as I understand them are that Slamdance had actively courted the creator of SCM RPG! to enter it into the festival, which then judged it to be a finalist before bending over for the corporations and shredding their credibility by removing it from the competition. Imagine Dominoes Pizza deciding it objected to the theme of Brokeback Mountain and told the Academy Awards to remove it. Imagine them doing it after it was already a finalist."
Why is it improper for them to have decided they don't want that RPG included in their competition.
Because, as already noted, they invited it and then declared it among the elite of the entrants before throwing it out?
KFG
Everyday Shooter, Toblo and Once Upon a Time have also pulled out.
This leaves the number of finalists at 8. leaving only ~60% of the original...
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"to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable"
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
censoring:
"1 a : the institution, system, or practice of censoring"
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictio
Censorship can refer to goverment censorship, but doesn't have to. Anyone who has any power (including companies, contest judges, etc.) can censor.
As Carlin says "Try to pay attention to the language we've all agreed on."
Looks like 3 more have dropped out as well:
http://braid-game.com/news/?p=21
5 games in total have quit in disgust. Good on em indeed!
Gekido's Lair
Slamdance originally announced 14 finalists. They are currently down to 8 participating finalists.
Super Columbine was ejected.
Braid has pulled out.
Flow has pulled out.
Toblo has pulled out.
Once Upon A Time has pulled out.
Everyday Shooter has pulled out.
With nearly half of the finalists already gone, just a few more pullouts could cause a complete collapse of Slamdance this year.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
The name of the damn contest is "The Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition." That would be "guerilla" as in "a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc."
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That's a poor analogy. It would be like Domino's pizza objecting to a movie that glorified the two kids who went on a rampage at that school. And I would fully expect that such a movie would be pulled from such a competition. You are obviously ignoring the Elephant in the room and the awards it recieved. http://imdb.com/title/tt0363589/ http://imdb.com/title/tt0363589/awards This may suprise you, but valid artistic works that deal with tragedies and otherwise distasteful events get made all the time, and are often good enough to get awards.