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Natace · 23-11-2008, 07:41 AM

I'm curious to see the texture maps, this looks good, and I like the idea of him using his suicide gun as a weapon since apparently the concept of some zombies are that they retain memories from their previous life, usually doing the last thing that they did before they died, which in this case, was shooting a pistol

However, one thing that doesn't really make sense is that the typical zombie can't function without a brain, and hitler blew his brains out...so...hmmm

Now this is gonna go a little deep and I apologize if it may seem off track, but looking at this from the alternative perspective of a developer for handheld games, who is judging this competition and who wants to use one of the entries in the game. I would think that using hitler in the game would come up with a whole bunch of nasty problems, regardless of the fact that you got rid of the nazi flag, the zombie still resembles hitler, as does his back story.

I'm just saying that it might be an issue, but it might not...who knows, I thought it would be worth noting as game development also takes into account ethical issues and all that mumbo jumbo that can really bite a developer in the arse.
I mean just look at Rockstar games with the GTA games and how much of a crapstorm that stirred up with those game nazi's (so called responsible parents) out there who don't want games that aren't all about teletubbies and baby faced sun's.

I know that's pretty deep to take into consideration, but if anybody who read this thread never thought about that kindof problem before, they will think about it now.

23-11-2008, 07:41 AM	#15 (permalink)
Natace Senior Member 163 - 19	I'm curious to see the texture maps, this looks good, and I like the idea of him using his suicide gun as a weapon since apparently the concept of some zombies are that they retain memories from their previous life, usually doing the last thing that they did before they died, which in this case, was shooting a pistol However, one thing that doesn't really make sense is that the typical zombie can't function without a brain, and hitler blew his brains out...so...hmmm Now this is gonna go a little deep and I apologize if it may seem off track, but looking at this from the alternative perspective of a developer for handheld games, who is judging this competition and who wants to use one of the entries in the game. I would think that using hitler in the game would come up with a whole bunch of nasty problems, regardless of the fact that you got rid of the nazi flag, the zombie still resembles hitler, as does his back story. I'm just saying that it might be an issue, but it might not...who knows, I thought it would be worth noting as game development also takes into account ethical issues and all that mumbo jumbo that can really bite a developer in the arse. I mean just look at Rockstar games with the GTA games and how much of a crapstorm that stirred up with those game nazi's (so called responsible parents) out there who don't want games that aren't all about teletubbies and baby faced sun's. I know that's pretty deep to take into consideration, but if anybody who read this thread never thought about that kindof problem before, they will think about it now.