Comments on: Thoughts on the Guerilla Gamemaker Competition http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/01/20/thoughts-on-the-guerilla-gamemaker-competition/ building a healthy information ecosystem Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:31:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jason http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/01/20/thoughts-on-the-guerilla-gamemaker-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-131 Jason Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:56:46 +0000 http://www.shoutingloudly.com/2007/01/20/thoughts-on-the-guerilla-gamemaker-competition/#comment-131 <a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~3/79905395/" rel="nofollow">Joystiq points out</a> that Slamdance has actually dealt with legal issues in the past:<blockquote>But wait. The site also mentions that "the organization annually takes on legal matters in support of the independent artists." Indeed, in 2001, Slamdance stood up to legal threats from Artisan Entertainment and hosted a surprise showing of controversial documentary "Brooklyn Babylon." We find it hard that Slamdance had the resources to stand up to a distinct, stated legal threat from a major independent movie studio like Artisan but doesn't have the resources to handle vague, potential legal threat over Super Columbine Massacre RPG.... It seems to us that Baxter is just trying to come up with a convenient excuse for a hypocritical decision to duck away from defending a controversial game in the same way he would defend a controversial movie. But, as we all know, games are just kid's stuff, so really, who can blame him? </blockquote> Joystiq points out that Slamdance has actually dealt with legal issues in the past:
But wait. The site also mentions that “the organization annually takes on legal matters in support of the independent artists.” Indeed, in 2001, Slamdance stood up to legal threats from Artisan Entertainment and hosted a surprise showing of controversial documentary “Brooklyn Babylon.” We find it hard that Slamdance had the resources to stand up to a distinct, stated legal threat from a major independent movie studio like Artisan but doesn’t have the resources to handle vague, potential legal threat over Super Columbine Massacre RPG….

It seems to us that Baxter is just trying to come up with a convenient excuse for a hypocritical decision to duck away from defending a controversial game in the same way he would defend a controversial movie. But, as we all know, games are just kid’s stuff, so really, who can blame him?

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