[gameprogrammer] Re: Are AO games bad for CVs?

[Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 15:07 -0800, Daniel Greeson wrote:
> In my personal opinion I would tell you to not take the offer.  I say
> this on more of the moral side than anything. Have you thought about
> the affect you will have on others through your game? I mean look at
> GTA their point of view and game design is very talented however, on
> the moral side a very negative game.  The effects of material in games
> really affects those who play it.  I am not one of those people who
> scream all video games should be destroyed but I feel that game
> developers have a responsibility that they entertain with moral
> values.  I just wanted to give a different point of view that you
> might should think twice about taking the offer.  Sexually explicit
> material has very negative effects that can even ruin peoples lives
> and I wouldn't want to make any contribution on creating the medium
> that poisons people.  Just my perception and wanted to give you
> something to think about.
>  
> God Bless,
> Draven

Here is something you should read:

<quotation>
In 1970 President Richard Nixon appointed the President's Commission on
Obscenity and Pornography, also known as the Lockhart Commission. The
commission's eighteen members spent over $2 million reviewing the extant
research, interviewing experts, and also funding a survey of its own.
The final report concluded that there was no evidence demonstrating any
significant social harm from pornography depicting consenting adults,
and recommended that existing obscenity laws should be repealed.
President Nixon refused to accept either the report or the commission's
conclusions.
</quotation>

You really should look up that report. If you can find it.

To the best of my knowledge there is no, zero, zip, evidence that the
availability of sexually explicit material depicting consenting adults
does any damage to individuals or society. On the contrary, sexually
open societies seem to have less problems with sexual crimes than do
sexually repressive societies. 

If you can not personally verify that something is true, it probably
isn't.

	Bob Pendleton


> 
>         Hi,
>          
>         An adult site, SM stuff, offered me some really nice money for
>         a simple game, not bloddy, and I’m considering to make it.
>         Since this would be the first game with my name on it and
>         since I’m really serious about getting into game business I
>         would like to ask the professionals here: Should I accept the
>         offer? 
>         It’s not about money, since I have a nicely well paid part
>         time job. But that’s something I could in my free time,
>         quickly, nice payment, nice number of users and it’s not
>         agains my religion (hehe). I WON’T do it just for the money, I
>         would do it ONLY if I can use it on my CV.
>         What do you think? A nice game studio would reject my CV if I
>         put a game like this into my application?
>          
>         Thanks,
>         Dirso
> 
> 
> 
> 
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