Blog - Oh Dear, it's Sporn
Saturday, June 21, 2008A rare NSFW sort of entry from me:
Given as I study under someone who quite literally wrote the book on sex content in video games, I'm familiar with quite a bit of weirdness in that area.
So, the whole issue with all the, er, "anatomical" lewd creatures people are making with the Spore Creature Creator (now termed "Sporn") is something I've been following. I'd like to see exactly how this goes as far as censorship. As Spore is supposed to be a family game, there is apparently some sort of system available to help flag certain creatures as adult content, although I'm a bit confused as to how this works.
Some comments I've read implied that any user can flag a creature as inappropriate, and others have said it's up to the creator to tag their own creature as offensive, or risk a cease and desist letter and/or ban if they fail to do so once their creature is discovered.
In any case, this is a prime example of Brenda's tip: if you give the player tools, they will find a way to make penises with them.
Honestly, the creature creator doesn't even make it that difficult to do so. Players have gone much, much further out of their way to make phalluses in games (killing enemies so the bodies can be arraigned into certain lewd shapes, etc.) that a tool as easy to use and powerful as the creature creator was bound to be littered with offensive content. Some of them are actually pretty creative, and I even learned some advanced techniques from seeing a few of these abominations, like how one can make extra bodies out of limbs.
Unfortunately, I happen to be teaching a bunch of immature high school students when such a tool comes out... oh well. posted by Brian Shurtleff @ 9:57 AM
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