The Games Industry Must Not Stay Silent on Palestine
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What's happening in Palestine is wrong. Why won't the video games industry say so? Play Liyla and The Shadows of War: https://rasheedabueideh.itch.io/liyla-and-the-shadows-of-war Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeopleMakeGames Created by Tamoor Hussain: https://www.twitter.com/tamoorh Chris Bratt: https://www.twitter.com/chrisbratt Anni Sayers: https://www.twitter.com/anni_sayers Special thanks to Rasheed Abueideh: https://www.twitter.com/RasheedAbueideh And Rami Ismail: https://twitter.com/tha_rami 00:00 - Why PMG is talking about Palestine 4:12 - Two years on from Tamoor's original video 10:47 - What's it like in the West Bank right now? 13:46 - How Apartheid happens 18:00 - The role of Israeli settlers in Palestine 21:26 - Palestine and the media we consume 24:39 - How Palestinian games, films and art is stifled 26:48 - This didn't start on October 7th 31:54 - So how do we make a difference? 34:03 - Rasheed's next game 35:35 - Tamoor's closing thoughts 36:39 - Support our fundraiser!

May some of the takes be pretty meh, with the whole condemning HAMAS. But it surely is not all lost, just the whole idea of western gamedev hypocrisy on how they supported Ukraine yet are not doing the same treatment to Palestinians. Just want to hear your thoughts.

  • lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    8 months ago

    The gaming industry was all out for Ukraine because it’s very white and pretty conservative when not all out “freeze peach” fascists. It was predictable that when worse things happen to Palestinians for indefinitely more unjust reasons they don’t give a damn, they’re Arabs and Muslims after all.

  • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
    51·
    8 months ago

    I generally like Tamoor, and he has been pretty vocal on this particular issue even if I haven’t agreed with him on some things in the past.