Thread by @soychicka

How many release cycles until they let you upload the layout of your own school? Add faces of your own classmates?

You know, just for... fun.

fortune.com/2018/05/24/act…

Oh - look - they're being *so* responsible on the @steam_games website...

They warn it might not be appropriate for all ages. But, you know, no actual age limits...

AH, and the same game dev also has a game named

"White Power: Pure Voltage"

That just happens to rip off @Stranger_Things visual design and trademarked phrase "The Upside-Down"

But it looks like @netflix DOES pursue protection of their trademark (though usually with humour); hopefully do the same here, with this company marketing video games where you can be the school shooter!

Though, I wouldn't take such a friendly tone...

techdirt.com/articles/20170…

And actually, @netflix - if I were you, I'd use the opportunity to subpoena their source code management repositories & determine if the decision to add a student shooter to the game was really an afterthought, or if it was made much earlier during development than they indicate.

Since, you know, they brought your branding into it.

And seriously... NO dev will build anything like this without using version control.

And just as an aside: that studio has undergone a CRAZY degree of improvement in their skills over the past year. Almost crazy enough that one might think it's not even the same dev behind the game now vs. what was released last year.

Somebody might be interested in looking at that too... seeing if there were any, shall we say, subcontractors - or other parties - involved in the production of this game. That should be evident in any version control repositories they have.