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hey, I just want to apologize for being a pain in the ass.

Pairing up with all the western media, and producing something which does seem, to the few who know, somewhat unfair, not because it doesn't happen, but because the % are small, in the end, is exactly that: unfair to those who care about such issues!

I'm not sure what you mean by "the % is small"...

Here I quote: "Over 5000 women and girls are killed every year by family members in so-called 'honour killings', according to the UN. These crimes occur where cultures believe that a woman's unsanctioned sexual behaviour brings such shame on the family that any female accused or suspected must be murdered. Reasons for these murders can be as trivial as talking to a man, or as innocent as suffering rape."

Should the issue not be raised and talked about because it "may" bruise egos?

http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=News

and

http://www.stophonourkillings.com/?name=Stories_Archive

The numbers seem pretty high to me, and...

"Islamist culture that we're already over-fed with."
"You're just feeding western egos."
"It seems like it's more about how fucked up Muslim people are..."
"...stereotypical..."

all seem like reasons not to avert the problem altogether. (quote: "It's talked, filmed, written about for ages.") Does that mean we have to forget all about it? Leave it alone and let the activists do their jobs? Even if you plaster "unoriginal" all over my game, it's still rings true, it's real and can happen to any Muslim woman/girl out there. It happens everywhere and whenever someone brings up the issue in public, it becomes "stereotypical" and "feeding western egos". Do you think it rubs my ego to see the pictures of young girls and women who were brutally murdered? No, it does not.

There's a man who was killed because he has made a short video about an issue like this. His name is Theo Van Gogh and he made a movie named "Submission" that's viewable on youtube. There's another man who's currently making another short movie and already he's received death threats.

I don't think my game is unoriginal, and I don't think it's a "small" issue.

I like that idea a lot better, actually.

Ty Emerald, me too. 

Nothing is set in stone yet. What about...

Nasrin weds the man her father has chosen for her, she's back in her country and is happy, etc... She becomes an emergency-room nurse in a nearby hospital. Her sister-in-law is married to a cruel man, she comes to confide to her that her husband suspects her seeing another man and has warned her that he was going to kill her. Nasrin is helpless and can only comfort her friend and send her back home. The next day, Nasrin has no news of her sis-in-law, so she decides to go visit her on her way back from the hospital. She finds her in her home bloodied and weeping, her in-law says that her husband had tried to kill her and her children, and that in self-defence she killed him instead and hid the body. If she is discovered she will be executed, she is only fourteen. What is Nasrin to do? Will she compromise her own safety and future to help her friend?

Perhaps, Nasrin's own husband helps?

Ty for all your help. I'm off to make my game now.

The issue I want to mainly address in this game: Honour Killings.

The story revolves around Nasrin who flies overseas from Iran to study in England. She spends four years there, makes friends and slowly forgets about the taboos and don'ts of her culture. She starts partying like her friends and dates guys. Spending so much time away from her family, she had forgotten the fact that she had to come back eventually. Her father calls her on the phone and announces he has found her the perfect man to wed. Nasrin has long lost her virginity and with mounting dread as the date to return home approaches, she is torn between her easy-going modern life here and her loving family and her duties as a Muslim woman in her country.

She loves her boyfriend, Josh but at the same time she has her Islamic way of life and family members waiting for her.

Nasrin listens to her parents and marries the man her father has chosen. Nasrin world then turns upside down. Her husband is outraged to find that there is no blood on the sheets after their first night together. The in-laws want her head and her father says he will kill her with his bear hands. The family she had thought would always be there for her changes into vengeful blood-thirsty monsters over-night.

Nasrin must decide if she will be killed at the hands of her family or if she attempts to escape to another country and go into hiding.

To her surprise, there is still hope and she finds an ally where she least expects it.

I apologize if my first pic was stereotypical, I had this vague idea floating in my mind and I wasn't certain how I would express it into an adventure game. I like the idea of a deeper look into moderate Islam versus the more extremist side. I want to be able to touch certain taboo aspects while being watchful of what I express into this game.

The game dialogue and puzzles will be hard to figure out. I'm thinking that the character is able to talk with other people but what she says and whom she says it to will decide if the game ends or not.

You have some good points, Auriond.

I've been waiting to be inspired in order to begin my first game and I think I am now.

An in-depth research will be my next step. Many thanks.

I actually do have something to say on the matter and I can't seem to keep the subject off my mind these days. I'm aware that it's a very delicate subject...

I mean to tell a tale of a young woman who struggles against her religion and traditions, she has dreams of a better future. She finds this in a foreigner who is gentle, kind, patient and treats her as an equal.

This video somewhat inspired me...

You are a young muslim woman who is attempting to escape the country. Both your family and husband want you dead because you have caused the unforgivable sin of falling in love with another man. If found, you will be stoned or beaten to death.

Your lover is a foreigner from the west, who is waiting to leave with you at the airport. You must find a way to find yourself there without being discovered.



What do you think?