[arg_discuss] Topic of the Week Oct. 26: Choices

[Hugh Davies]

In 2005, tried to set up a hunter/killer game (kind of like Street Wars) in
Adelaide, Australia but this was seen as distateful (mostly by potential
players) given the climate of terror at that time. Not that Australia had
any attacks of its own.

I also read on a forum around that time  ( it might have even been on this
list) that the US patriot act could  be used to crack down on ARG's as
experiences confusable terrorism.

In 2006, I wanted to run a game that had players stalking and videoing
strangers (which were actually other players).
This was raised as a privacy no no when i applied for funding as i had not
planned to get player consent before hand.

Im now trying to get a twitter delivered narrative through an ethics
committee review which im pretty sure wont survive the scrutiny as people
could potentially mistake the fiction for reality and freak out.

Does Sasha Baron Coen have this problem?

hugh

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:45 AM, <libfli at aol.com> wrote:


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>  during Sammeeeees i had wanted to have one of the characters, Peeps,

> seek refuge with players.  Peeps, on the run from evil Spoocheeeee,

> would have shown up on different player's doorsteps unannounced.  so,

> basically

> the core players would be hiding him out and he would stay on the move

> around

> the country.

> decided that it might freak out some players or their significant others,

> so i decided

> against it.  and i'm sure there are legal reasons not to do something like

> that. :)

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> Jan

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> From: Andrea Phillips <andrhia at gmail.com>

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> Subject: [arg_discuss] Topic of the Week Oct. 26: Choices

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> Since we're on the subject already, sort of... I'm pretty sure many of

> us have had fabulous ideas that you haven't implemented because of

> legal or ethical considerations. Anyone care to share those ideas and

> the thought process that led you to ultimately axing them?

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> My example: for Routes, we wanted to send actors playing the role of

> lawyers or policemen on behalf of a big pharmaceutical company to

> knock on players' doors and deliver them with mocked-up C&D papers. We

> ultimately decided this wouldn't be the right thing to do. One big

> issue was the age group we were creating for -- if a teen player's

> parents answered the door, it might put the player in a difficult

> position, because as with Toyota, the player had opted in but the

> parents hadn't. And "But mom, it's for a game" isn't very convincing,

> is it?

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> (Kim, care to weigh in more on the specifics of that particular decision?)

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> So tell me, sirs and mesdames, where have you chosen to pull your punches?

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