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What game studios doesn't make games with demons, magic/sorcery and mythological beings ?

Started by April 23, 2020 05:14 PM
31 comments, last by fleabay 4 years, 9 months ago

@SuperVGA No problem.

remove all those and there`s not much left to make the game with, unless it`s a WW2 game. Mythological beings are legit scapegoat not to kill people in a game.

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T-700 said:
there's a lot of games that the community loves like Doom Eternal, The Witcher 3, an so on that have the things of the topic that make me feel really uncomfortable. Please show me some studios that doesn't add those things into their games.
… demons, magic/sorcery and mythological beings

Those tropes have been around for millennia and are deeply embedded across the globe in storytelling. That means avoiding them will be difficult.

“Christian” doesn't really explain it, since there are thousands of varieties seemingly each with their own variations on what is forbidden, and each person tends to have their own moral code. Companies also won't care which religion it is. Objecting based on your religious beliefs is perfectly fine, but so is not hiring people who are uncomfortable doing the job. Companies exist with morals similar to whatever yours are, but that's very specialized and unlikely to make a good career decision because the jobs at those specific short list of companies are few and far between.

Note that while the game may have the elements, most game programmers aren't deeply involved with the story itself, they're involved with the technology. Gameplay is about providing cause/effect for triggers, containers, and abstract objects. Game networking is about making computers talk to each other, it doesn't particularly matter what the content is. Game graphics are about rendering polygons on screen and getting effects and shaders to run. Some of them will be related to topics you feel are taboo, but “make a blurry glow effect around a model” applies just as easily to putting a halo around an angel model head as it does to a red glow around a demon model.

Sports games typically don't have those elements, but there aren't many of them. I know some people with beliefs like you described don't like working with likenesses of real people, but if that works for you, it's an option.

Gambling games typically don't have those elements, but given your religious preferences, I imagine those are out.

Out of curiosity, how do your religious beliefs align with products made by Nintendo? While most of the franchises include the elements (LoZ has demons, sorcery abilities, and mythological beings, Mario products are filled with them for bosses and some story lines, Pokemon has them, Animal Crossing has mythological beings throughout) it's something I've seen highly conservative religious people tend to not mind. Nintendo has locations across Japan, in Seattle and Austin USA, and France.

How do you feel about card games? Many people whose religious beliefs make them uncomfortable with what you described are also against face cards (something about graven images?). Card games typically don't have them, but there's not a lot of market for them.

Trivia games may have questions about them but the code usually is completely unrelated. Again, not much of a market, but it exists.

Many games focused on children tend to keep it simple with animals and educational content, but they do tend to include magic and supernatural elements. Talking fish or self-possessed cars may violate the magic/sorcery elements, games like Roblox may violate them as well.

Games that are heavily science fiction rather than science fantasy avoid the supernatural preferring something with a pseudoscience aspect, but they also tend to be filled with guns, violence, aliens, and women with bikini armor.

Companies exist, but you'll have a hard time making it as a career if you are determined to avoid the most common storytelling tropes. They are part of the collective human experience and have been for many thousand years. They aren't going away, and will likely be present in any game that revolves around a story.

@frob Nintendo… yes I don't like them, I was interested in Pokemon because of the designs later I see that only the designs I liked are based in those things for example Mega Charizard and Mega Lucario (this one could have been based on Anubis). Of course not every pokemon is based on the things I want to avoid.

Did you consider anything outside games for entertainment?

I wondered about what was left for you, and then my mind jumped to “serious games”, that is, games intended to educate people about something.

@Alberth If those involve VFX… it will be cool.

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JinGleeW said:

Try Sport games? Like FIFA 20? LoL

You are right. Those games don't have un-Christian demons etc. But the OP was looking for studio names, so…?

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@T-700 Yes I decided that I will work car racing games.

@JinGleeW Yes I decided to work with car racing games.

@Tom Sloper OP ?

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