These kind of people make me sick and should be ashamed of themselves for making mankind fear moral stances. These people degrade society into thinking that everything will be ok as long as sewing prevails over any moral stance of any race, religion, colour, background etc. Pocket God is a disgrace to mankind?.Look who's talking. I'm not saying that racism is ok, I'm just saying, let humans do what's natural to them, this warped idea of racism is just a natural way of organizing and dealing with change. No matter how tolerant you are, you still think about rice and slanted eyes when you think of Asians, and you think of Hitler and Nazis when you think of Germans. It's human nature to give something a label. I'm not complaining, why are you? Anyone can play the racist card, but if something really offends you, try using your words instead of throwing around meaningless phrases that once represented the image of violence and hatred. I'm half Asian and half German, and the fact that someone can't handle a bone in a cartoons hair or a statue annoys me, considering how often people joke about communists and Nazis around me. I can understand trying to defend their nationalities and whatnot, but anything that has an animate object in it probably incorporates some kind of stereotype. This is such a horribly critical thing to say. That kind of overreaction is a travesty of a mockery of two shams no matter what race you are. It's truly unfortunate that a few cranky individuals have found a way to suck the joy out of the room by labeling this game disgusting and degrading. Get over yourself people! Pocket God is a game that's beloved by almost a million cult of iPhone fanatics for a reason. In my opinion, being offended has practically become fashionable. Almost anything these days can be seen as offensive to someone when viewed through a microscope. In our most recent conversation Castelnuovo referred to Pocket God as having "a prehistoric theme" like he's said in past interviews. I've had the pleasure of speaking to Dave Castelnuovo from Bolt Creative on several occasions.
Marginalize any nationality, race or culture in any of its video games, "Bolt Creative does not intend and has never intended to offend or Indirectly represent any human nationality, race or cultural people," Bolt Creative wrote.
"The fictional characters in Pocket God do not directly or
The Pacific Women's Information Network has complained directly to both Apple and Bolt Creative, with a replyįrom the developers at Bolt apologizing for any offense taken, "but we insist that He said the game only strengthened the stereotypes from which Pacific people around the world were trying to break free. "How can they justify encouraging the torture of a race in this way? It's disgusting." Everything about them is Polynesian," Koloamatangi said. "To claim they are not Pacific islanders is ridiculous.
Pacific academic Dr Malakai Koloamatangi, from New Zealand'sĬanterbury University, wasted no time abandoning his own sense of humor before stating that he found Pocket God "totally degrading". Taking offense to Pocket God is little more than a knee-jerk reaction at best, needing to be tempered by a healthy sense of humor. Pocket God has helped me renew that feeling of childlike I've always thought of the island characters as cavemen rather than Polynesians. Possibilities for iPhone users." Daily downloads of 7,000 to 8,000 units from the iTunes App Store after almost four months has proved our earliest assessment to be true. This $.99-cent juggernaut which has sold over 850 units since it's launch on Januhas been heralded by the iPhone Savior as "One of those fantastical ideas that opens up a world of new In Pocket God, the user takes on the role of an "all-powerful god ruling over a miniature tribe of primitive islanders". Or Asians?" wrote Howard, who lives in the US. Were God and you could create and kill as many Mexicans as you wanted? "How do you think people would react if you created a game where you But US creators Bolt Creative argue the game does not depict any particular nationality. What she means by 'our people' is specifically Pacific islanders. The wildly popular iPhone app Pocket God, a game that encourages humorous torture of cartoon islanders has come under attack by Elaine Howard from the international Pacific Women's Information Network who has forwarded a complaint on to developers Bolt Creative stating the game is an "arrogant slap in the face to our people".