Possibly Controversial idea (The Youth of Andrew Jackson)

cyanide · 2017-01-13T17:57:25.936Z

And same here so maybe it would be safe to assume that they might not have been as friendly as you claimed? I mean stopping him from beating a man to death in public and having served under him arent really the best thing to assume a friendship on. I’m ready to bet that a lot of soldiers dont alway appreciate their superior.

Rogar · 2017-01-13T19:48:59.724Z

Crockett’s an interesting figure in himself that he did a lot of crazy stuff compared to someone like Kit Carson who him and Crockett or both Legends in there day. Crockett was charming and very good at self-promotion and storytelling. He literally charm himself in the public office. On top of the fact that he protested the Indian Removal and died in the Alamo which propelled him him into the pantheon of American cultural Hero. Then me look at some like it Carson who has Legend arguably destroy his life and put them in the position that no one should ever be in. Sam Houston and Jackson were close but I do wonder what term they where after the Indian Removal Act. Considering Sam Houston’s adopted father was the former principal Chief before Ross.

Arasia_Valentia · 2017-01-16T08:07:09.915Z

Sorry Rogar bb, it seems the idea has not taken hold with our less enthusiastic forum audience. Alas, what they say is true, and for now I believe it best to leave it be. You can always just send it to me if you decided to still make it.

Rogar · 2017-01-16T11:56:41.725Z

The forum seems mix in opinion. I need to get properly researching fo it anyway. My good friend thank you for your support I appreciate it deeply. And whenever I do you make it of course I’ll send it to you. Worst-case I may just turned this Otome game.

Arasia_Valentia · 2017-01-16T15:23:49.094Z

Looool omg I would play that so fast.

Rogar · 2017-01-16T18:42:17.821Z

Late 18 century frontier romance!!!

555sarin · 2017-01-21T10:23:49.533Z

Wait, hold on, off-topic a bit. Does this mean Hosted Game accept erotica now? Cause the last time I ask, they said no.

Sashira · 2017-01-22T17:17:05.515Z

The Apple store is what doesn’t accept erotica; you’ll have a hard time publishing your work there if you go beyond “suggestive fade to black.” COG itself is fine with erotic content, as long as you’re not breaking their basic content rules (no glorifying rape, etc.)

Rogar · 2017-01-22T17:36:40.676Z

It all depends to if he got into Jackson’s radar during the war. Then they would have a warm relationship. But that’s not clear and I would have read some biographies and find out. Look at Sam Houston he left with the Cherokee and 1829 married a chief niece, the only reason she didn’t go with him to Texas because she didn’t want to go to Texas. Houston had incredibly close relationship with the Cherokee and Jackson. I got to do some research but he apparently still love Andrew Jackson like a father until the day he died. Because you gotta remember to the removal policy headed two year grace period. And there was about two to three thousand Cherokee that left when they saw the writing on the wall Huston could have been among them. And I know he was close with that Chief Jolly. And the reason I can be so sure of this is he named one and his sons and you AndrewJackson that was born in Texas post removal. Maybe his relationship with Chief jolly already planted animosity to him with the current principal chief at time.

cyanide · 2017-01-22T17:53:37.178Z

I’m not sure why you tagged me on this. I think it felt pretty clear by our last conversations that you are not someone I want to discuss history with. Your facts are half checked and biased. We get it you like Andrew Jackson but he was a terrible person and thats all there is to say to it. No amount of guesses about his relationships with people can remove that fact and I’m pretty tired of you defending him without listening to anybody.

I’m not a part of this conversation anymore. Glorify Andrew Jackson with other people who cant be bothered with fact checks.

Rogar · 2017-01-22T21:10:00.793Z

I could say the same thing for Obama and having to Collateral Damage of innocent human lives when he drone strikes them. Like at 16 year old American citizen that just happened apparently have the wrong father. But you can be an American citizen then if you happen to be Muslim habeas corpus does not exist for you just drone bombing if your outside the country. The Jacksons compelling character because they are a walking contradiction of this country. But honestly you are doing as much as fact checking as I am damn Going Google Scholar checking out samt academic search engines. And when you study history at all you have to understand the minds of the people that was contemporary during their time… I going back to work a temporary perspective we can judge Obama bout that action cuz he knew about it you know they are going for eating go through any of the proper procedure. And if the fence you can push it off like this since the Cold War from the Phoenix project of the sixties to overthrow some Chile installing military dictatorship. America’s a nation is a living breathing contradiction since its birth. And all of them have an incredibly interesting narrative and many times atrociously tragic and the Triumph that we do have in this country just makes it even more so.

Laguz · 2017-01-22T21:15:36.693Z

Does that change the fact that CoG has told you several times that they won’t host your game?

Rogar · 2017-01-22T21:21:57.206Z

Only if I’m glorifying it precisely and if I do make this it’s going to be through stages and that people that see this Persona a different perspective. From the people close to him to his enemies. I will glorify nothing I will show about the pain and suffering he caused many and the elevation and Rise he did for some. but I will also give a lens appropriate for the era of each person depending on their perspective. And yes I will give appropriate research. Hell I can just do something like and divided we fall or as you see in the pillar Earth series. Will focus on a group of characters of the generations with all this going on in the background. God damn this is still in the drawing period. I’m figuring out how to approach this. So unless you’re willing to give good advice take your comments somewhere else.

Laguz · 2017-01-22T21:29:16.305Z

RETowers:

There’s a significant chance that Hosted Games would refuse to publish this due to our guidelines about Grossly Offensive content.

Specifically, we believe that allowing the player to participate and encourage horrific actions (e.g. rapes, genocides, hate crimes, war crimes), especially historical ones, usually contains a certain amount of glorification inherent to the medium.

Specifically, it’s very easy to justify actions which are unjustifiable, both by simply making the player participate in them and rewarding them for doing so, and by seeking a narrative balance and ‘reasoning out’ things such as rapes and genocides as ‘understandable’ or ‘inevitable’ when we see that in actuality they are not.

But it’s not what your game is about, but how and what you present, in an interactive medium.

You’re either whitewashing by choosing to have these acts “in the background” as you say, or you’re glorifying by putting them in as choices or eventualities. You can’t win doing a historical game of this type on or around such a character.

Rogar:

So unless you’re willing to give good advice take your comments somewhere else.

I’m sorry, but this topic is not at present locked to me. I am allowed as a consumer to voice my opinions on anything that can and will be provided by this company. Several other users have already done the same.

Rogar · 2017-01-22T21:33:52.234Z

The thing is good sir I would allow for multiple perspective that play one may view it necessary and other and will see its destructive actions. Which will make their perspective mute from the point view of the player. Nobody viewed what they did it’s glorious. They had to justify to themselves so it was the best choice at the time. Even wrestling with the mortal ambiguity and the horrible nature of it.

Hex · 2017-01-22T21:44:03.548Z

Seems like this already has a very linear story to follow and it would have to be since it’s based on real events. Other people already pointed out that it’s kind of hard to get interested when so much is already pre-determined for you. Not that this wouldn’t be something that people might play, but are you sure this would be the right platform for your concept?

Laguz · 2017-01-22T22:00:45.215Z

Rogar:

The thing is good sir

##I’m not a sir, nor a ma’am.

Rogar:

They had to justify to themselves so it was the best choice at the time. Even wrestling with the mortal ambiguity and the horrible nature of it.

You see, that seems like glorification. Humanisation of historical racists and killers; these people “didn’t want” to do this, had to justify it to themselves.

Honestly? They probably did not care about these acts. They seemed natural because of the idea at the time. Good, and moral, even.

Hex:

Not that this wouldn’t be something that people might play, but are you sure this would be the right platform for your concept?

This is exactly my point. It is not that I wouldn’t play a game about Andrew Jackson, just not one in this particular medium. It doesn’t allow much room for outside viewing or a neutral perspective.

RETowers · 2017-01-22T22:14:22.432Z

555sarin:

Wait, hold on, off-topic a bit. Does this mean Hosted Game accept erotica now? Cause the last time I ask, they said no.

I’d have to see the details of what was said to see if that’s us stating something different. There’s a lot of lines all over the places of what could make us reject something or not. It’s also noteworthy we might (might) publish something that we wouldn’t want discussed on the forums. Some forum topics get really heated, specifically regarding erotica, and as such we’d have to keep things nice here.

As a second note, it’s also possible we said ‘iOS probably won’t publish it’ which is now distinctly separate from ‘we won’t publish it’. As a third note, it’s also possible (if you heard it second hand) that some one said ‘no erotica’ when we said ‘not that erotica’ (which is almost certainly glorifying rape).

@cyanide To give the absolute benefit of the doubt, not everyone gets the difference between the reply to post button and the reply to thread button. I’d recommend muting threads.

@Rogar As @Laguz mentioned, you seem to miss the point w/r/t publication. Saying genocide is ‘horrible, but the best choice’ is exactly the justification we would not publish. Turning it from what it was, which is to say or horrific crime against all humanity and an abandonment of all morality for the sake of material gain, into some kind of ‘noble sacrifice’ is glorification.

Dark_Stalker · 2017-01-22T22:15:03.091Z

Regarding the controversy part, wouldn’t it’d be easier to do it the Esrb way, show your planned most controversial parts so that way you can get a good idea of people’s response first? I feel like the conversation is going in circles without actual writing to critique and even if it is seen as upsetting, this is a forum, you’ll have help making it more acceptable. Plus it’ll show how much choice you’ll allow.

Though now I’m confused about COG standards, couldn’t we join the KKK, drink children, and be a slave owner in Choice of Vampire?

Anyway, did Jackson even do anything really controversial before his presidency?

dfabulich · 2017-01-22T23:47:27.772Z

Rogar:

Only if I’m glorifying it precisely and if I do make this it’s going to be through stages and that people that see this Persona a different perspective.

No, I told you that if you write this game, you will glorify Jackson’s genocide, and then, when you do, we won’t publish it.

I can see how my earlier post may have given you the wrong impression, because I only said that “I don’t know how” you could avoid glorifying Jackson’s genocide when writing this game, and that you “probably” won’t succeed in avoiding glorification.

Rogar:

They had to justify to themselves so it was the best choice at the time. Even wrestling with the mortal ambiguity and the horrible nature of it.

If you actually think that Jackson’s genocide was morally ambiguous, then I know you will fail.

“… so you’re telling me there’s a chance!”