[Gllug] Stupid laws

[Liam Delahunty]

someone? wrote:
>>Probably, we have ELSPA and the publisher pays the fee's .
>                                                       ^ yuck

I'm often guilty of missing apostrophes, I find
http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/ invaluable. Having given that I fully
expect to make an enormous grammatical error in the post now.

David Damerell wrote:

>[However, in the UK, games are subject to the attentions of the BBFC
>if they depict <stuff>

I used to work in the games industry, and Richard's post is correct, but I
would add that you need to get a BBFC rating if the game contains video too.
IIRC there was a minimum amount before they were interested, possibly 5
minutes (this was 4 or 5 years ago, before DVD games), but as a publisher
you had to show some intelligence too, if you had a small section of video
that was "naughty", you sent it in.

As they don't really have any games players there you need to provide a tape
of all the video scenes and sign away your life that there's nothing else in
the game.

Far more difficult to deal with were Nintendo/Sega/Sony who ran checks on
the games to ensure "quality", but was really just standards compliance, and
dare I say it, a devilish way to delay games that may clash with their own A
list titles.

<further OT>
Favourite original games I worked on Creatures, Z, Abes Oddysee, DBZ...
</OT>

Kind regards, Liam Delahunty



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