re: Epic Games has announced Relooted: Africans steal African artifacts from Western museums…

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But they aren’t. The owners are making money. It’s no different than the movie tax credits and the Hollywood accounting practices. The key is properly packaging your product, then finding the lowest cost help available that qualify. If the movie takes off you make a killing. But the worst case scenario is it fails and the company folds…but that doesn’t happen until the producers get their salaries.

Look at Yale entertainment. They ran up $50 mil in liabilities and are about to declare bankruptcy…yet throughout their tenure the producers were the first paid and pulled in $175k/mo for their efforts.

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A cynical person might consider this money laundering.

I'd play the shite out of that game.

Can’t wait to play as George Floyd and use his fentanyl power up.

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A cynical person might consider this money laundering.

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A cynical person would question how Forrest Gump has yet to turn a profit. The entertainment industry plays by a different set of rules.

I don't get the thought process on deciding on this premise.

I mean, sure, The British Empire was notorious for stealing shite that wasn't theirs (like our forefathers' taxes). That said, is this really a compelling story?

These things are better when they're not set against real world politics, because unless you're shooting Nazis in 1944 Germany, it's rare that you'll get enough universal support to make a game a hit.

Better to have them finding artifacts in some made-up country that, at best, only vaguely resembles a real world one.

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I don't get the thought process on deciding on this premise.

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Because their primary interest is job creation, and the premise needs to qualify for funding.

"Because we're trying to create a more diverse games studio, it means we're not hiring people who have worked in games [before], because they're all white men, so we can't do it that way,"

“I'm not going to tell their stories, but a lot of my ability to do Nyamakop is based purely on privilege and generational wealth, and the crazy safety net you have.”

"The way we talk about it and frame it, particularly on the continent or in South Africa, is like, 'We lack access to funding!' And I'm like… the network is there. Sithe literally is trying to give people money on the Black Game Developers Fund all the time. We clearly have access to the network to make funding capable. Our problem is, are we making things that are fundable? And that's the context, which also requires funding, but it's a catch-22."

I wonder if it will include a chirping smoke detector?