The father of Deus Ex, Thief, and System Shock attacked those who were involved in Donald Trump‘s violent video game reel as a developer.
Spector is a veteran in the scene (we could name a few more games from him!), and he attacked his younger colleagues on Twitter. „I don’t believe games cause violent behavior. Not for one second. However, the videogame reel shown at the White House on Thursday is simply disgusting. Every shot is in colossally bad taste, and everyone associated with those games should be ashamed of themselves. They hurt us.”
He got a reply, saying that his games are also far from an E (for everyone) rating. His response: „True enough but the games I work on typically offer alternatives to violence; I try to show the consequences; there aren’t any decapitations, bloody gibbing headshots or ax killings. I don’t mind violent games. I mind games that glorify it & present it in graphic, disgusting ways.”
Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox and one of the directors of Fig (a crowdfunding website), chimed in, saying that violence is sometimes necessary as part of the depiction. „Your own games can be cut with such a mindset -pressed into the same service of highlighting depictions of violence to undermine art and expression. Such depictions are sometimes necessary if art is going to be useful to our species. Have you not read Shakespeare? The Bible?”
So there’s already some conflicts between game developers after the Trump-meeting on Thursday. The situation is likely going to evolve into something else shortly. Until then, here’s Trump’s reel in case you haven’t seen it yet.
Source: GamesIndustry
