I think the situation we have where people behave this way is far more worrying than any game that could ever be made. People are so eager to just jump on a wagon. If this is the case then we have accomplished what we set out to do. The reactions people have to this game is something they will never forget, and they will remember just how inhumane slave trade was. People treated human beings as pieces that just had to fitting into the cargo. I definitely agree it is insensitive and gruesome.’ It has to be like this to show what was done to load slave ships. ‘Slave Tetris is a mockery and insensitive. You can express any idea through any medium. Slave trade is too serious a topic, and should not be done in a ‘fun medium’ like games.’ This is similar to people saying you cannot make visual novels of difficult subjects or movies like Schindler’s List because movies are entertainment medium. ‘You cannot make a game about sensitive subjects. The critique runs on a number of levels, and we may very well have overstepped some people’s boundaries – that was not the intention, and sorry about that, but it is hard to tackle a sensitive subject,” the post said. Some on a very superficial level and some on a deeper. So a lot of people are appalled by the game. The studio’s CEO Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen subsequently deleted his Twitter account, on which he had been defending the game, although a lengthy post on Steam outlined his reasons for rejecting the criticism. In other words it wasn’t as important for us as for a lot of people, so why not just remove it… I know I have the freedom of speech but if yelling banana mean we cannot talk about the rest of fruits – well maybe we should hide the banana for a while.” Basically, we removed the Tetris part because it distracted the discussion from what was important and was literally 15 secs out of 2 hour game,” it said.

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