wraggster
September 9th, 2013, 22:44
Indie dev wants to offer a different WW2 game experience
Indie developer Luc Bernard has strong words of criticism for modern day shooters, calling them distasteful and in the case of Wolfenstein: The New Order, even an insult to the Holocaust.
"You've seen it, right? I think they have robot Nazis or something like that? That's what I would call distasteful," he told GamesBeat. (http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/07/holocaust-game-creator-takes-issue-with-world-war-ii-shooter-games-as-distasteful-interview/)
"I'd nearly say it spits on what happened during World War II. You're taking what the Nazis represent - a mass genocide, the killing of so many people - and you're making it seem like a toy, a game. It's an insult to the Holocaust."
Bernard is currently trying to raise funding for his own game, Imagination Is The Only Escape, which he calls an "educational story-driven game about the Holocaust through the eyes of a child." He's turned to crowd-funding after publishers failed to grasp his concept.
"This doesn't really fit with publishers," he explained.
"I don't have anything against them, but a game like this doesn't fit in their market model. Even when I was trying to find people to pitch it to, they proposed instead that I try and get the license to Maus, the comic book. I said, 'No, that's a great story, but this is my own thing. I don't want to use someone else's license.' This just isn't an easy game to do through traditional methods."
In the past Bernard has worked on Mecho Wars, Reaper, SteamPirates and as a design consultant on Pocket God: The Runs.
The game's funding campaign currently has $3,441 of its $125,000 goal raised, with 39 days to go.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-09-09-luc-bernard-wolfenstein-is-an-insult-to-the-holocaust
Indie developer Luc Bernard has strong words of criticism for modern day shooters, calling them distasteful and in the case of Wolfenstein: The New Order, even an insult to the Holocaust.
"You've seen it, right? I think they have robot Nazis or something like that? That's what I would call distasteful," he told GamesBeat. (http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/07/holocaust-game-creator-takes-issue-with-world-war-ii-shooter-games-as-distasteful-interview/)
"I'd nearly say it spits on what happened during World War II. You're taking what the Nazis represent - a mass genocide, the killing of so many people - and you're making it seem like a toy, a game. It's an insult to the Holocaust."
Bernard is currently trying to raise funding for his own game, Imagination Is The Only Escape, which he calls an "educational story-driven game about the Holocaust through the eyes of a child." He's turned to crowd-funding after publishers failed to grasp his concept.
"This doesn't really fit with publishers," he explained.
"I don't have anything against them, but a game like this doesn't fit in their market model. Even when I was trying to find people to pitch it to, they proposed instead that I try and get the license to Maus, the comic book. I said, 'No, that's a great story, but this is my own thing. I don't want to use someone else's license.' This just isn't an easy game to do through traditional methods."
In the past Bernard has worked on Mecho Wars, Reaper, SteamPirates and as a design consultant on Pocket God: The Runs.
The game's funding campaign currently has $3,441 of its $125,000 goal raised, with 39 days to go.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-09-09-luc-bernard-wolfenstein-is-an-insult-to-the-holocaust