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rufflebee wrote:

If you make a project that appears to be attacking a certain group of people, no matter what, it's bound to get flagged.

What if I changed the names and exaggerated a bit?

Blade-Edge wrote:

You say true light, then you say bad guys. You shouldn't make this project because you have already demonstrated how biased you are towards them.

So it is against the rules to create a project biased towards a certain group of individuals, then?

rufflebee wrote:

Whether the people are bad or not, (But I'm not saying they are, and I'm not saying they aren't. This is Scratch, not a political rally.) if the project is ATTACKING them, it is going to get flagged.

Alright, that's the answer I needed. Thanks  . But once more, if I change names and exaggerate, will it still be flagged?

I lived in the UK for a few years.. though I am in North America now...
It probably wouldn't be offensive. I am actually not sure. It doesn't really represent British people as a whole so it could be that it offends noone?

Paddle2See wrote:

What an interesting question!  Making any project portraying a group as "bad" is almost certainly going to offend members of that group. 

However, people might find it not offensive (or not AS offensive) if you base it around historical events and explain that it is based on viewpoints widely held at that time in history.  For instance, if I made a game about the American revolution and had the "bad" guys being the British, would people find that offensive?  Let's ask our friends from the UK....any takers?

I see what you mean. The story I was thinking of using for the point and click adventure was something from 'I Was a Communist for the FBI'- a radio show from the 1940's based on a true story about a man named Matt Cvetic who worked as an undercover agent that had infiltrated the communist party and informed the FBI of the illegal happenings that went on behind the scenes. I'm not talking about writing an essay on why communism is bad, but more of a point and click adventure in which you play as Matt Cvetic and stuffz.

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iCode-747 wrote:

Maybe...

I'm making a game where the communists are the good guys... 

I think it's ok, as long as you aren't disrespectful. 

Really? What's the story in it?

Last edited by Sunrise-Moon (2010-08-02 19:00:35)

What if she was portraying Terrorists as the bad guys?

My bad 

littletonkslover wrote:

Hur hmm, it depends. Probably, it could hurt some people    Plus, isn't that biased and rude? >.>

Read the rest of the thread and see what the story I'm talking about is like.

Sunrise-Moon wrote:

littletonkslover wrote:

Hur hmm, it depends. Probably, it could hurt some people    Plus, isn't that biased and rude? >.>

Read the rest of the thread and see what the story I'm talking about is like.

Hm, I don't think you should do communists in particular. Communism in theory is not a bad idea for many countries, and a lot of Communists are good people, it just didn't work out. Maybe taking some figures from Communist history?

(ex Stalin)

littletonkslover wrote:

*politics aren't allowed*

This is true. Let's both delete last few posts.

Either way, it's a tough choice. If you support communism, you're like Stalin, and if you're anti, you're like Mussolini. Making a project that's biased towards a group of people as the bad guys would definitely be flagged, so the only thing you can do is make it some kind of unnamed group that follows the same principals a communist would, but isn't named as a communist

Blade-Edge wrote:

Either way, it's a tough choice. If you support communism, you're like Stalin, and if you're anti, you're like Mussolini. Making a project that's biased towards a group of people as the bad guys would definitely be flagged, so the only thing you can do is make it some kind of unnamed group that follows the same principals a communist would, but isn't named as a communist

That's what I was thinking of, and what I'll probably end up doing.

colorfusion wrote:

If your making the project especially to show your opinion against them, its bad.
If you have a fighting game and just need someone to fit into the bad guy role, its ok.

You should probably mention that in the project notes.

That doesn't necessarily make it bad, but yeah, that's not what I'm doing. I'm making a point and click adventure based on a true story about how a man worked as an informant for the FBI that had infiltrated the communist party. It was turned into a fictionalized radio show in the 1940's- I Was a Communist for the FBI. The whole thing is sort of about the illegal things they were doing, so it's still a bit like writing an essay against communism.