Source: thenewstack.io
Reviving Video Games Made by Teens Behind the Iron Curtain
“Experience the collapse of Soviet-style Communism by playing the video games designed by angry teenagers living under it,” quipped https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7n7z7/you-can-now-play-video-games-developed-behind-the-iron-curtain. Using public funding from the Slovak Arts Council, the Slovak Design Museum has teamed up with the Slovak Game Developers Association on a multiyear project to translate the Slovak-language games into English, to help make them more visible worldwide.
A https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/how-indiana-jones-fought-the-communists-and-led-an-era-of-activist-video-games/ recalled how Czech and Slovak teenagers “were among the first in the world to figure out that video games can carry political statements.
In the design museum’s blog post, Hrda also recalled it being mainly teenagers and children, living “in countries with non-existent copyright protection…
Hrda also recalled games that were clearly subversive towards the communist regime — describing, say, an unauthorized anti-regime protest.
A https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/10/how-indiana-jones-fought-the-communists-and-led-an-era-of-activist-video-games/ recalled how Czech and Slovak teenagers “were among the first in the world to figure out that video games can carry political statements.
In the design museum’s blog post, Hrda also recalled it being mainly teenagers and children, living “in countries with non-existent copyright protection…
Hrda also recalled games that were clearly subversive towards the communist regime — describing, say, an unauthorized anti-regime protest.
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