{"id":10841,"date":"2011-03-23T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dead-island-dev-responds-to-complaints-of-kiddie-zombie-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10841-dead-island-dev-responds-to-complaints-of-kiddie-zombie-violence","title":{"rendered":"Dead Island dev responds to complaints of kiddie zombie violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Dead Island trailer launch was significant for three things &ndash; being rad, going backwards, and featuring a dead kid.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to criticism that depicting violence against children is exploitative, or otherwise unacceptable, Deep Silver&rsquo;s Sebastian Reichert told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-03-23-dev-defends-dead-island-child-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a> that, &ldquo;I&#8217;m feeling sad for the people who don&#8217;t see that in this trailer are also 25 regular people dead. They&#8217;re running around and trying to eat your brains, but they&#8217;re still dead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He then reminds everybody that, actually, in case we&rsquo;d perhaps forgotten about it or something in between all that rushing about and shooting stuff in the face, &ldquo;Killing people in general is a taboo. So as soon as you go to the zombie topic, you have to face the fact you will kill people, else it won&#8217;t work. So yes, we also have a kid in there. But I don&#8217;t see we exploited this in any way, like we just splattered her over the ground or some weird s**t like that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kid zombies won&rsquo;t be making it into the actual game, however, but for more practical reasons than public hysteria. &#8220;We were thinking about it to implement it,&rdquo; he explains. &ldquo;But what are the advantages of a kid zombie who has no reach? He&#8217;s weaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKilling people in general is a taboo\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}