Re: Introduction

[Miriam Ruiz <miriam@debian.org>]

Hi,

This was quite predictable to happen sometime. Games are a lot about
telling stories, and stories can come in very different flavours. As
we are planning to maybe getting a game into Debian, that has explicit
erotic or sexual contents -I haven't really played it myself, so I
don't really know the extent of the contents, the messages delivered,
or if it is just an erotic story or if it has some kind of apology of
something-, I thought it would be wise to inform both the Debian Legal
mailing list and the DPL, to gather some feedback if it is feasible or
if there are some limits to what is acceptable in the repositories of
the project, keeping especially in mind the problems we might cause to
mirrors, distributors or sellers, and if there's a need to handle
these cases especially.

Please, keep the Games Team in CC.

Greetings,
Miry


2014-03-03 18:37 GMT+01:00 Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>:
>
> I am not that interested in most video games, as I think they contain
> needless grinding. However, I am interested in games with interesting
> mechanics or story, like Warzone 2100 or the games by Jason Rohrer.
>
> I am going to start with trying to package "Bernd und das Rätsel um
> Unteralterbach" - a visual novel set in present-day bavaria containing
> (optional) erotic content - as soon as the author releases source code
> and assets. Getting it packaged is important to me as I found that
> Ren'Py makes code bit-rot fast, having contributed to a VN myself.
>
> I am somewhat anxious about packaging Unteralterbach, as it may show -
> depending on player choices - content pertaining to sexual abuse, bdsm,
> consent, moral panics, slut shaming, virgin shaming, religion, etc. and
> makes fun of the german federal police and several contemporary public
> figures. However, I believe that the author has handled these issues in
> a suitable manner, delivering a compelling story based on these themes.