This document discusses ideas for a parody game about the proposed anti-piracy law SOPA. The game would censor elements in popular games like Zelda or Sonic to show how overreaching SOPA could be. It poses questions like whether the game could copy entire levels from other games while censoring characters, music, or objects. The goal would be to argue against giving companies too much power over online content and censorship, and to show how people will find ways around such strict laws.

1. Readme subject: Gaming & Ludics
At what point do games become art?
- Visuals
- Sound
- Story
- Feel
- Message

2. I missed the point
I will stick with the “games” topic as I have a lot of
experience in that area.

3. Games that caught my attention
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Desert Bus
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Cowclicker

4. Thought about a game like these,
but the opposite
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Instead of the only goal is to raise your score by
clicking, you complete a variation of goals but
your score remains at 1.
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Instead of playing to unlock things, the longer
you play, the less things are available.

All about smooth, nice feeling gameplay rather
than scores and achievements.

5. Too simillar to endless games
(adventure/rpg/creation games)
Make it about something controversial and
popular, such as war, politics, censorship etc

6. SOPA!

At the time of planning it was big
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It will always return
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Use parody games to argue against SOPA

7. How would I parody it?
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SOPA is all about censorship so:
Censor things that don't need censoring?
Create something fully censored?
“Break the law” of SOPA and copyright
infringement, but censor it...

8. TV Censorship

9. Popular games series - censored
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Beep out iconic music

10. What game should I “copy”?
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The legend of Zelda (The legend of SOPA)
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Sonic the hedgehog (SOPA the hedgehog)
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Super Mario bros (SOPA Mario bros)

11. Could I rip off a whole game?
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What things could I censor?
Faces
Music
Levels
Objects
Menus

12. What could SOPA stop?
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Characters, but fan art?
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Gameplay mechanics?
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Would games companies support SOPA or
not?

13. The music
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“beep” out certain parts?
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Recreate entire sound with beeps for
instruments
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Have fan-made music that is open-source
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Have open-source music on the same page as
game, but not inside it

14. Art censorship
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Level censorship?
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What characters are iconic enough to censor?
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Blocks faces with black blocks or blurring?

15. Name changing
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“Sonic” and other characters are owned by
SEGA and Sonic Team.
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Should I change them or cover them?

16. What am I trying to show?
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SOPA would give companies too much power
and control over everything.
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It's too late to introduce censorship with all the
content already available.
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People would always find a way around SOPA.

17. I whipped up a menu

18. What will hopefully be:

19. Questions?