May 18, 2019
Some Suggestions For Game Devs Dealing With The New Chinese Rules
Defeat
Conclude
Exhaust
Ruin
"Another piece has been removed from the board."
Demolish
Owned
Corrected
Ice
Smite, Smote, Smitten, Smitificatifitatemitized
Merely Stunned!
Outcompeted*
Ruined
"Running dog has been brought to heel!"
Struggled Against
Re-Educate
Re-Zone
Denied the mandate of Heaven
"His social credit score is zero!"
* No: suggests competition is legitimate and not a waste of energy and resources incompatible with socialist values.
China has passed legislation that bans video game content that are an affront to the nations socialist values. Among other travesties, this legislates removing the word "kill" from video games. More difficult to deal with, all blood must be removed.
American game developers, who have, for some time, been grovelling before the whims of CCP Censorship in pursuit of Yuan like a Crack Whore begging her pimp for a fix are falling over each other to oblige. (I'm particularly amused by the way Gamasutra seems to be presenting this as 'Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.')
One of our Crack team of 2-D tech babes has thoughts...
DestroyChinese Tech giant Tencent Games have already adapted to this new law in at least one title. While they handle distribution of Player Unknown’s BattleGround: Mobile in China, the game has now been renamed Game for Peace.
American game developers, who have, for some time, been grovelling before the whims of CCP Censorship in pursuit of Yuan like a Crack Whore begging her pimp for a fix are falling over each other to oblige. (I'm particularly amused by the way Gamasutra seems to be presenting this as 'Super easy. Barely an inconvenience.')
One of our Crack team of 2-D tech babes has thoughts...
"First: Apologies to Crack Whores. Second: Here are some helpful suggestions for substitutions for 'kill' or 'killed' in your revised style guides..."
Defeat
Conclude
Exhaust
Ruin
"Another piece has been removed from the board."
Demolish
Owned
Corrected
Ice
Smite, Smote, Smitten, Smitificatifitatemitized
Merely Stunned!
Outcompeted*
Ruined
"Running dog has been brought to heel!"
Struggled Against
Re-Educate
Re-Zone
Denied the mandate of Heaven
"His social credit score is zero!"
Interestingly, commie specific examples aside, this is remarkably similar list to a hell we in the U.S. have already lived.
You see, back in the late 1960s the U.S. started having an explosion of action oriented children's shows that mostly aired on Saturday mornings. These ranged from re-runs and knock-offs of Johnny Quest to Super-Hero shows (both original and adapted from comic books). Animation allowed cheap stunts and FX and facilitated other things (one season, all the Hanna Barbara action shows crossed over). The medium began improving rapidly as skills were honed and the voice talent pool expanded. Johnny Quest in particular, which had been a flop a decade earlier in prime time, experienced a revival in the new time slot and inspired several imitators in the U.S. and even abroad. One of those, Japan's Tatsunoko Productions was actually selling its shows to ABC (Speed Racer, Marine Boy, Gigantor) The stage was set for a new art form to....
THWACK !
In 1968 after a spate of assassinations, a commission on youth violence put together by the Johnson administration STRONGLY suggested that the 3 Big U.S. TV networks seriously scale back on their violence. Animated action shows all but disappeared for a time. The 1970s were an insipid wasteland of drek for young boys.
Now we have a first amendment in the U.S. and the internet does not have a regulatory gate like the FCCs bandwidth licensing, so in theory this should not affect us.
China's huge market has an outsized effect on all western entertainment industries and the CCP and PLA have there tentacles in western media companies via companies like Tencent. The temptation to water down, or otherwise censor and rewrite games to comply with "socialist values" is already very strong and is having insidious effects on our media.
There is, perhaps, a silver lining here. These new rules are SO restrictive that developers who design fighting games and such may just throw in the towel on the China market, which will only benefit us.
You see, back in the late 1960s the U.S. started having an explosion of action oriented children's shows that mostly aired on Saturday mornings. These ranged from re-runs and knock-offs of Johnny Quest to Super-Hero shows (both original and adapted from comic books). Animation allowed cheap stunts and FX and facilitated other things (one season, all the Hanna Barbara action shows crossed over). The medium began improving rapidly as skills were honed and the voice talent pool expanded. Johnny Quest in particular, which had been a flop a decade earlier in prime time, experienced a revival in the new time slot and inspired several imitators in the U.S. and even abroad. One of those, Japan's Tatsunoko Productions was actually selling its shows to ABC (Speed Racer, Marine Boy, Gigantor) The stage was set for a new art form to....
THWACK !
In 1968 after a spate of assassinations, a commission on youth violence put together by the Johnson administration STRONGLY suggested that the 3 Big U.S. TV networks seriously scale back on their violence. Animated action shows all but disappeared for a time. The 1970s were an insipid wasteland of drek for young boys.
Now we have a first amendment in the U.S. and the internet does not have a regulatory gate like the FCCs bandwidth licensing, so in theory this should not affect us.
"Remember. There is no difference between theory and practice in theory, but in practice there is. "
China's huge market has an outsized effect on all western entertainment industries and the CCP and PLA have there tentacles in western media companies via companies like Tencent. The temptation to water down, or otherwise censor and rewrite games to comply with "socialist values" is already very strong and is having insidious effects on our media.
There is, perhaps, a silver lining here. These new rules are SO restrictive that developers who design fighting games and such may just throw in the towel on the China market, which will only benefit us.
* No: suggests competition is legitimate and not a waste of energy and resources incompatible with socialist values.
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