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iOS游戏《偷渡卡车:移民行动》因政治话题遭非议

发布时间:2011-02-12 16:30:33 Tags:,,

手机应用的一般功能都是提供娱乐、资讯或商务服务,大多数人都不认为它会与网络热议的政治话题扯上关系,但最近由Owlchemy Labs工作室推出的一款原本默默无闻的iOS游戏《偷渡卡车:移民行动》(Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration)却因此而遭到了公众的声讨。

Smuggle Truck-Operation Immigration

Smuggle Truck-Operation Immigration

据游戏邦了解,这是一款以墨西哥偷渡移民入境美国为主题的游戏,如果玩家成功偷渡的移民越多,获得的积分也就越高,入境的幸存者将得到一张绿卡。

虽然该游戏的官方网站表示,这款游戏只是从讽刺角度来反映现实问题,但有许多人认为这些卡通移民角色从卡车上摔下来,被滞留在荒无为烟的沙漠中的场景实在不应该是一种娱乐元素。

游戏邦获悉,拉美移民权益组织代表Patricia Montes认为,这些试图入境美国的非法移民不应该成为大家游戏体验中的一部分,他们会偷渡完全是生活所迫。

不过该游戏的开发商却毫无悔意,辩称这款游戏是为了表达对那些移民的同情心,该游戏的灵感来自他们好友试图入境美国的亲身经历。大众媒体一直在回避这些问题,电子游戏领域更是如此,所以他们想通过这种互动方式,让大家共同关注美国移民系统的一系列问题。

虽然这款游戏能不能顺利通过审核仍取决于苹果的态度,但该工作室无疑已通过这种方式实现了他们所谓的政治主张,并获得了不少媒体曝光率。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Too Soon? Immigrant-Smuggling iOS Game Pending Approval

Mobile apps usually aim to entertain, inform or help us be productive. All in all, they usually don’t incite the Internet into political debate. But people have a lot to say about the pending iOS release of Owlchemy Labs’ instantly infamous game, Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration.

Owlchemy Labs would have to be beyond clueless to think that Smuggle Truck wouldn’t spark up heated controversy. After all, the entire premise of the game involves navigating a rickety truck full of immigrants across what is purportedly the Mexican-American border. The more immigrants you transport alive, the higher your score, and crossing the border gives each saved immigrant a green card.

While Smuggle Truck’s official website says that the game takes a “satirical angle on a real issue,” many think that watching cartoon immigrants fall off a truck to be left stranded in a desert is far from hilarious. “I don’t think that people who are trying to emigrate into the U.S. think they are part of a game,” Patricia Montes, Executive director of Latino immigrant advocacy group Centro Presente, told Switched. “They do it because they are desperate.”

Smuggle Truck’s creators, however, insist that the game was created with only sympathy toward immigrants in mind. As the game’s website says, “Smuggle Truck was inspired by the frustration our friends have experienced in trying to immigrate to the United States. With such a troublesome issue being largely avoided in popular media, especially video games, we felt the best way to criticize it was with an interactive satire.”

The statement goes on to assert that the game’s controversial subject matter serves to facilitate a larger political dialogue: “We want to create a game that is fun to play but also stirs up discussion on ways to improve the problematic immigration system in the United States.”

While greenlighting the game now lies in the hands of Apple, Smuggle Truck might have already accomplished its goal of stirring up the political pot and getting some press to boot.(source:techland)


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