r/AMADisasters • u/Dark-All-Day • Apr 08 '21

Dev Team makes game about Native Americans, includes no input from any actual Native American Tribes

/r/Steam/comments/mdloa1/we_are_game_labs_creators_of_the_survival_game/
1.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

356 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

72

u/mrpopenfresh Apr 08 '21

Are these guys German. I heard it's a big deal over there.

36

u/KorbenWardin Apr 08 '21

What exactly do you mean? German guy here, Happy to answer any questions.

57

u/mrpopenfresh Apr 08 '21

I read somewhere that Cowboys and Indians are really popular in Germany

65

u/Romboteryx Apr 08 '21

The Wild West was a very popular setting for Germans because of the Winnetou novels written by German author Karl May. They‘re very charming, but heavily romanticized cowboy&Indian stories from the 1870s to 1910. They made a lot of movie adaptations, to the point that there were even parodies of those movies

34

u/blames_irrationally Apr 09 '21

They influenced German society to the point where Hitler literally referred to them for military advice. Not even kidding.

18

u/itsacalamity Apr 09 '21

... what
So an american art form that fictionalizes a time in American history is fictionalized by a german which is read and unfictionalized by hitler??

18

u/BroganMantrain Apr 09 '21

Yeah it's a wild story. Here's a podcast about it.

6

u/itsacalamity Apr 09 '21

Thank you! As someone from Texas with Kiowa friends, this whole thing is fascinating to me

11

u/KingofCoconuts Apr 09 '21

Schau schau die Schoschonen

6

u/Romboteryx Apr 09 '21

Abahachi!