According to Microsoft guy David Dennis, quoted on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog, Zombie Cow Studios’ Privates is unlikely to pass the Xbox LIVE Indie Games (XBIG) peer review for publishing on the channel.
“While we haven’t seen this game,” he says, “we can confirm that if it is consistent with the description we have seen on the Internet, this game would not pass peer review and would not be permitted to be distributed on Xbox Live.”
The description in question, of course, would be that the game is a “platform twin-stick shooter in which you lead a teeny-tiny gang of condom-hatted marines as they delve into peoples’ vaginas and bottoms and blast away at all manner of oozy, shouty monsters”.
There’s a rather strict set of guidelines for independent developers looking to release games through the service, which includes prohibition of sexual content. That the game is funded by the UK’s Channel 4 as an educational title promoting safe sex and condom usage is apparently somewhat irrelevant. As it would probably be to 99% of the game’s eventual audience.
Zombie Cow’s Dan Marshall isn’t too fussed yet. “[XBIG peer review] is one of those bridges we’ll just have to cross when it comes to it. There was always going to be a risk it won’t pass peer review, but obviously we’ll do whatever we can to get the Xbox version out. It’d be a shame if a huge number of teenagers missed out on some quality gaming and vital education because of some abstract, cellular-level innards and pubic hairs.”
Whatever. There’s going to be a free PC version anyway.
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