After all, a game about colonization should be offensive, and its assets and code are going to reflect that. What we did not expect was for game developers to interpret our analysis of games and code as a form of attack and perhaps we should have explicitly stated that we do not blame game developers for the offensive nature of the game. We explored key issues of representation and player agency in previous posts about how Natives are defined in the game’s code and represented in the game’s art and mechanics.
Trevor’s initial post discussed the fervor with which bloggers reacted to the game’s release, and he argued that games about colonization should be offensive if they are meant to represent a colonialist ideology. When Trevor and I started writing a series based on the 2008 version of Sid Meier’s Colonization, we knew that the issues we wanted to discuss were already controversial.
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