The pratfall near the end feels almost appropriate.
A Canadian development outfit has acquired the exclusive rights to make videogames based on the works and likeness of Charlie Chaplin. The filmmaker and actor wrote, directed and starred in dozens of films and his character The Tramp remains one of the most globally recognised icons of comedy. Chaplin is now venerated by a film establishment that once looked down on his work, and old clips and even entire movies have found something of a contemporary audience for him on YouTube.
Hm. The question of how exactly that translates into a videogame remains to be seen, not least because the people involved don't seem to have done much beyond laying the foundations. Young conceives any project as a"social impact" videogame, which is being developed alongside Indie Asylum, a"gaming co-operative" in Montreal.
"No one has ever done a videogame with this intellectual property", says Christopher Chancey, co-founder of Indie Asylum. Anyway. Chancey reckons that the pandemic has created an appetite for games that don't fit the traditional mold:"Life was so stressful for a while that continuing playing dark videogames or video games with mature themes was more like a downer." He adds that a potential Chaplin game could center on the divisions between poor and rich.
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