STORMCROW'S PROFILE

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author=unity
Personally, that name is so badass that unless you're planning to sell the game or want to be able to google it easier, you may want to still keep the name XD Even tho I completely understand the urge to want to change it

First off, THANK YOU. I thought it was badass too. <3

Secondly, I am planning on selling it commercially as it happens.

author=Sooz
IMO if it's a 25 year old game you can keep it and just make sure to emphasize RPG or something.

*nod*

Like I just told my pal Uzuki from RMW, I doubt there's a law--at least not one anyone's going to bother enforcing--keeping me from calling my game the exact same thing. It's just that apparently, this Tex Murphy game is actually like, really famous and well known (just not, obviously, to me/us) as an exemplary specimen of adventure game from that era, and in the event my game to any degree gets noticed, at all, I don't want games journalism broadly speaking to have to refer to it as " "Under A Killing Moon" (not the Tex Murphy one)".

(Having not bothered to wikipedia anything, I think that the Tex Murphy games were made by the same person as the Gabriel Knight games that came out roughly around the time and IIRC that person was one of the very first women in the vidyagames industry in a position to actually exercise creative control and respected for it.)

Also I can totally imagine a universe where the RPG thing backfires so emphasizing that this is Under A Killing Moon The RPG leads to fans of the adventure game (if any are still alive jesus FUCK that game is almost older than me) thinking that it is...an RPG version of the 1994 adventure game lol.

I'm pretty happy with my new title but I'm not spilling it here, it feels too built up now lol.

lol, trufax. (also trufax: everything I learned about mitochondria I learned from Parasite Eve...I probably have some serious misconceptions)

Gahh. I've wanted to play The 3rd birthday so bad since I learned it was a thing but:

a) I don't own a PSP have never owned a PSP don't want to own a PSP don't DO mobile gaming never have, for me, gaming is an activity where I don't have to deal with the onerous burden of wearing pants, that's why I haven't had a portable gaming thingy since like the GameBoy Advance.
b) It isn't available on any other platform AFAICT it's not anywhere else.
c) I have 0 disposable income anyway so it's a moot point.
d) Emulation is weird and scary and I am ignorant of it and while I think my current PC should be enough of a powerhouse that it SHOULD be able to run a PSP emulator w/o a problem, in early fall of last year trying to run a PSX emulator to play FF8 LITERALLY almost melted the tower of my old desktop; I smelt burnt plastic and was sure she was a goner but she survived another couple months. Whole experience left me v. gunshy of emulating anything more resource intensive than SNES.

I've also been wanting to replay the original and the much-maligned sequel (somewhere technically still in my possession, halfways across the country, there's a PS1 memory card with a savegame on the final boss of PE1 who I could never beat). Let me look into if those are available for PS4. It'd be a minor miracle--FF7's on PS4 but FF7 has a lot more cultural cache than PE. Although then point c) is probably going to burst my bubble anyway.

In hindsight, I felt kinda stupid even worrying about this. That's a big honking precedent, even if that series was first booted before the world got quite so sensitive as it is now about these matters.

I mean, as much as it can be for a game set in a dark fantasy world mostly modeled after the Balkans during the middle ages, Under A Killing Moon/La Curandera is "about" the Spanish Inquisition, and considering how that hooks into related topics like the treatment of women and indigenous peoples in the Northern Americas during the era of the Salem Witch Trials, I mean, arguably it's sort of wedged into a place where it contacts the tension between Spanish (as in Spaniards) culture and language and indigenous cultures (Curandera for instance is a specifically Mexican word; the European Spanish equivalent, Bruja, has slightly different connotations as well as a different ring) and that stuff gets into some sticky wickets, but hopefully it's clear that my motive here is not to caricature, mock, or attack Spanish speaking people.

author=Hexatona
EDIT: TL;DR: are you using spanish to make spanish people sound/look stupid? no? then it's fine.

Cultures take from other cultures all the time, all throughout history. Are you mad that the Japanese use English all the time to make things sound cool and foreign? I'm not. It's funny when they get it like HECKA WRONG, but I'm never offended, why would I be? I think it's a made-up concern, basically.

If ideas and concepts were locked in the place they came from, and unable to change, the world would be dead and boring. For that matter, Nothing is original, just remixed versions of something from before. In Short, it's all good.

The only time you would need to be concerned is if you are using something culturally and boiling it down into a negative caricature of some sort. But honestly, you wouldn't do that, or you wouldn't be asking this question.

TBC, I'm on the same page as you.

However, I've seen stories of Japanese-Americans and other Asian-Americans getting very angry over stuff that seemed perfectly innocent and harmless to me, like people wearing Kimonos or costuming as Geisha on Halloween or whatever. I don't love the fact that we live in a time where if you're a reasonably kind of sort of culturally sensitive person you feel the need to ask this stuff...but we do live in just such a time. And nothing can ruin your day faster than a pack of outraged culture warriors.

Nazis. (In the broadest and most colloquial sense of the word Nazis.)