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Of course arguments fell on both sides of the matter. On a minor note, this is our first game title and we are still quite naive in many areas.Īs always, we thank you all for your support!' Tweak the dart blower so it looks less like a joint. We will be making the following fixes to the current characters but if it ends up not being suitable to the game as a whole, we may change the design entirely.Ĥ. However, regardless of our intentions, if any people were offended in any way, we sincerely apologize. We wished to add character to the mask design and give it life to it - something like the little Kakamora characters in Disney's Moana. As characters in the game, they move in groups and use blow darts that paralyze when hit. The focus was on creating colorful masks and our designers were researching masks from all various cultures. We were not producing character designs referenced on any real African and/or Afro-American human tribes. The design intention was to create characters who are protectors/guardians of a particular mystic region in the world of Little Devil Inside. However, these characters have not been revealed publicly elsewhere prior to the event. In addition, no one (not just limited to team members) has ever commented or hinted on the character designs. Racist stereotypes of any kind were absolutely not intended, we were not aware of the stereotypical connotations and wish to apologize to anyone who may have been offended by the character design.

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'Dear all,In answer to a series of inquries made in the last 24 hours regarding certain character deign revealed in the PlayStation PS5 Reveal Event showcase trailer yesterday, the LDI team wish to make the following announcement.

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Here is the message in full taken from their Facebook page: Now Neostream have posted a message on their Facebook stating in short that they had no intention of actively mimicking any one culture and were trying to make 'guardian' like characters that wore masks and looked kind of wild - but since they don't want to offend anyone they will change the design. This has resulted in a bit of a blowback on social media accusing the devs of racial stereotyping - specifically that these indigenous looking people were the aggressors and that you, as the white Indiana Jones type, were pillaging their lands and obviously that they looked like native Africans. In one of those locations our (assumed) protagonist was being chased down by dark skinned, tribal looking people wearing large masks and using blowguns. The trailer showed among other things one of the characters going on adventures in various locations and getting into all sorts of trouble. Just recently during the Playstation 5 reveal event we got a look at the game Little Devil Inside made by the small studio Neostream.