Comments on: Patch Monday: The challenge of government 2.0 http://stilgherrian.com/internet/patch-monday-the-challenge-of-government-2-0/ All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:24:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/internet/patch-monday-the-challenge-of-government-2-0/#comment-31206 Stilgherrian Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:51:15 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5874#comment-31206 <strong>@Sylmobile:</strong> A good suggestion. The lack of an R18+ classification for games is, in my opinion, a thoroughly weird anomaly in the classification system. Not the only one, of course, but a glaring one. I had thought to interview the South Australian Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson. By all accounts he -- or at least his office -- is the stumbling block. I would be interested to try to understand why R18+ games would be such a threat to society when R18+ movies are not. I can't imagine myself on <em>Good Game</em> though. I'm not that interested in gaming myself, apart from the thoroughly unfashionable genre of strategic-level military simulations and, perhaps, submarine warfare. <em>Good Game</em> still equates "games" with "funky youth market", and there I do not fit. @Sylmobile: A good suggestion. The lack of an R18+ classification for games is, in my opinion, a thoroughly weird anomaly in the classification system. Not the only one, of course, but a glaring one.

I had thought to interview the South Australian Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson. By all accounts he — or at least his office — is the stumbling block. I would be interested to try to understand why R18+ games would be such a threat to society when R18+ movies are not.

I can’t imagine myself on Good Game though. I’m not that interested in gaming myself, apart from the thoroughly unfashionable genre of strategic-level military simulations and, perhaps, submarine warfare. Good Game still equates “games” with “funky youth market”, and there I do not fit.

]]> By: Sylmobile http://stilgherrian.com/internet/patch-monday-the-challenge-of-government-2-0/#comment-31205 Sylmobile Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:34:01 +0000 http://stilgherrian.com/?p=5874#comment-31205 Interviews with people in the classification, censorship and gaming development areas over the course of summer would be informative and interesting, especially as we approach the end of February deadline for the AG's <a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/gamesclassification">"An R18+ Classification for Computer Games - Public Consultation"</a> effort. A public consultation effort that allows interested parties to use a <a href="http://www.ag.gov.au/www/agd/rwpattach.nsf/VAP/(3273BD3F76A7A5DEDAE36942A54D7D90)~Submission+template+-+computer+games+-+R+18plus+classification+category.doc/$file/Submission+template+-+computer+games+-+R+18plus+classification+category.doc">submission template</a> that: "Submissions can be sent by email in Word format without embedded images. Submissions can also be posted or faxed." No mashups, please... ahem.... Interviewers could include people within the Classification Operations Branch at AG's, members of the Classification Review Board, developers subject to the <a href="http://www.classification.gov.au/www/cob/classification.nsf/Page/ClassificationinAustralia_Whoweare_ClassificationReviewBoardDecisions_ReviewBoarddecisions-2009">review board decisions</a>, gamers and people opposed to violent games. Given the hiatus in <i>Live!</i> offerings, I should expect to see you on the ABC's Good Game program at some point as well. ;-) Interviews with people in the classification, censorship and gaming development areas over the course of summer would be informative and interesting, especially as we approach the end of February deadline for the AG’s “An R18+ Classification for Computer Games – Public Consultation” effort. A public consultation effort that allows interested parties to use a submission template that:

“Submissions can be sent by email in Word format without embedded images. Submissions can also be posted or faxed.”

No mashups, please… ahem….

Interviewers could include people within the Classification Operations Branch at AG’s, members of the Classification Review Board, developers subject to the review board decisions, gamers and people opposed to violent games.

Given the hiatus in Live! offerings, I should expect to see you on the ABC’s Good Game program at some point as well. ;-)

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