Game maker: Apple banned our sweatshop iPad game
Education becomes more difficult by the day.
Kids have their heads buried in gadgets and bongs. For them, virtual communication is the only real communication there is.
So how can you get them to think about the wider world? One game developer, Littleloud, thought it would be stimulating to create an iPad game called Sweatshop HD.
This tasked the young players to maintain, yes, a sweatshop. It was, indeed, helpful during the game to ignore human rights and hire frightfully young employees. Just as in real life.
Apple, though, felt it was too much like real life. According to Pocket Gamer, the well-paid App Store wardens felt "uncomfortable selling a game based around the theme of running a sweatshop." At least so said Littleloud's head of games, Simon Parkin.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57575816-71/game-maker-apple-banned-our-sweatshop-ipad-game/
