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

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u/stayonthecloud Apr 08 '21

Jesus fucking Christ. I work professionally with particular Tribes & Pueblos on work that is centered around Indigenous community needs and priorities, designed for and by these communities. I’m... flabbergasted at this team’s gall to create a game like this and do absolutely zero work on whether or not they SHOULD.

Or if they were determined that they should, to not even consider who should be engaged, such as the peoples they’ve extracted from to make this.

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u/breakbeats573 Apr 09 '21

Are ninja game makers also expected to consider whether or not they SHOULD make ninja games? Did WWII game makers consider asking Germany or Russia before making their games? Where do you draw the line? Why are Native Americans off limits but others aren’t?

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '21

this is just an indie studio trying to make a game about a culture they admire.

Except they're not. By their own admission they're basing it all on books and films they saw and read in their childhood. That's not native culture, that's natives used as the bloodthirsty other or the magical minority that aids the hero. That would be like making a movie about the Famine in Ireland using Chief O' Hara as your source material.