Iran has tried to suppress a video game about their Islamic revolution

https://warisboring.com/iran-has-tried-to-kill-this-video-game-ba1b22710236

by Animats • 10 years ago

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Nobody was happy about it on both sides, so I was like, ‘I must be doing something right.’

So the diaspora Iranians in LA won't fund it because it isn't biased enough toward the shah's old regime. The ruling Iranian regime wants to kill it because it isn't biased enough toward the rebels.

You won't know you really have it right until the CIA and/or US State Dept. also complains that it isn't biased enough to the Americans.

x5n1• 10 years ago

The US gov will probably give you some money to fix that and make it available for free.

I had this idea of opening a game studio just for this purpose. To tell stories of politics and wars from an unbiased perspective. Currently most US video games about wars are more or less biased towards the US's view of the world.

zyxley• 10 years ago

On that note, I recommend This War Of Mine for a game that's all about war but not at all about glamorizing it.

pdkl95• 10 years ago

US video games about wars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbEiVrnhwlU

"Blood Is Compulsory: How We Talk About Advanced Warfare"

eternalban2• 10 years ago

diaspora Iranians in LA

Mostly Jewish Iranians. Not an entirely representative demographic.

the CIA and/or US State Dept. also complains

Only if your game documents the visit by American General Huyser [1] in the winter of '79 to Tehran and his direct communication to the Iranian generals of Washington's position regarding the future of Pahlavi regime.

You will understand nothing about world events since mid-70s until you wrap your head around US's decision to throw the Shah under the bus and prop up the Ayatollah regime. (Little hint for you here: have you noted IRI's enemies, Sadaam, Taliban, etc. falling off like flies at the hand of America while the robbed ones maintain their retarding [2] regime in Iran?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Huyser

[2]: Simply can not even imagine where Iran would be today if it had not suffered from more than 3 decades of sanctions, an entire generation maimed and killed in Iran-Iraq war, the continuing brain drain, and crippling sanctions based on the sock puppet regimes duly voiced "death to America" idiotic chanting. But you can be certain that it would be a very serious player on the world stage.

Iran has tried to suppress a video game about their Islamic revolution

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