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Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
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Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#42This is why a monopoly is bad. Google can dictate who has access or retains access.
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#43Surprising, even by Google's standards. DDLC is a violent game but not much more. What app store rule exactly is it breaking?
Self-harm (especially when depicting minors) has special standards. The recent court losses on child safety for Meta and YouTube probably led to this.
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#44Self-harm (especially when depicting minors) has special standards. The recent court ruling on child safety against Meta probably led directly to this decision.
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#45Aside from the comments on the rest of this thread, I’ll point out this unique point:
If this game’s content is objectionable, where was Google 5 months ago when it was released? Are they admitting that they don’t review apps that are submitted? Do their reviewers have zero familiarity with major multi-platform game releases?
How are they justifying the availability of the Grand Theft Auto or Resident Evil series on the Android platform if this game can’t be published?
Hopefully this turns out to be some kind of error or misunderstanding that gets corrected.
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#46Just want to drive by and mention - a friend told me to play DDLC and I was highly skeptical given the anime pin-up girl art style. I eventually gave in and gave it a shot. It's an amazing "playable story" unlike anything I have ever played. Super creative and well worth the couple hours it takes to play. I think it could use a few trigger warnings and it should be rated PG-13 / R, but there's stuff on Netflix 10x mo…
It’s hands down R to be clear lol but yes amazing experience.
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#47As someone pointed out why do we even bother with age ratings if we’re just going to ban games entirely for having wrongthink?
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#48It's available on Itch: https://teamsalvato.itch.io/ddlc
(I've never played it.)
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
This genre of games are called visual novels. Doki Doki was created with the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine by the way.
And it's also one of the most impressive displays of RenPy's capabilities you'll ever see. Plenty of games do amazing things with ren'py that you wouldn't think were possible just by looking at the dialogue DSL. Maps, HUDs, minigames, incredibly dynamic pathways through the game. But DDLC takes it to a different level, partly by looking so "normal" on its surface. In college I made some spare cash writing Ren'py game…
Any examples of other impressive Ren'py showcases?
Re: Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
#501bil+ people have surrendered their right to artistic expression to Google, and another 1bil+ to Apple, and another 1bil+ to Microsoft. Many more billions have surrendered it to Visa and Mastercard. The world will only continue to get worse for the foreseeable future as five corporations assert global control over what is allowed to be published. It is mournful knowing that humanity's peak is behind us.
Not Microsoft. "Sideloading" is not even a term in Windows culture the way it is with Apple and Google because it's not a second-class citizen.
> Not Microsoft
No Steam on Xbox Series X/S, last I heard.
> Apple
Steam still works on macOS, last I checked.