"I find it sad that companies and organizations continue to target, market and depend on our children for their personal growth and then censor them and stifle their creativity," Chris' father John Cordova says. Repeated emails to Roblox representatives went unanswered. They just took all of their work away from them." "They need more of an explanation," says Chris' mom Vicky, "There needs to be some more rights for users to be able to have their game.
Still, a handful of games with some variation on the title Kill Donald Trump are still playable on Roblox. As someone who just had their first experience with Get Over Trump's Wall, I can tell you that the game doesn't have a political agenda-unless you happen to feel very strongly about obstacle courses. In the section called "What Not to Post," it reminds users that, "If you are a member of a religious or political group, Roblox is not the place to post about your political views or religious ideals." But that's where things get a little murky. Roblox's rules of conduct are specific about users posting adult content or material that promotes illegal activities. "There isn't anything offensive in the game at all." "It was all very surprising," says Sam's mother, Elaine. Not long after the game's launch, Glick received an email from a Roblox admin in which he was informed that his game would be removed and that his account would be temporarily suspended. While that's a huge win for any independent artist, the folks at Roblox weren't too happy with Curious Studios and their representation of the Republican presidential candidate. "We just used him because we thought it would be funny, and he's trending right now." Something within that equation worked, because the game earned over 30,000 unique hits after spending only two days on Roblox's servers. Neither Cordova nor Glick have particularly strong political opinions-they're seventh graders, after all-but there was something about Trump's persona that stuck with them.
After a swan dive into Trump's swimming pool, Glick navigates through a few more obstacles until he makes it through the wall and into Mexico-where he is welcomed by an audience of Mexican corgis, no less. Next to a climbable facsimile of Trump Tower, a gold statue of The Orange One himself stands imposingly over the landscape, waving the stars and stripes.
It's not long before he's leaping over American flags and doing parkour through Trump's mansion on his way to the White House. About 10 minutes into it, he has taken charge of his avatar, a blocky, three-headed dude with a snake wrapped around his neck. "It's like an obstacle course," Glick, one-half of the newly formed Curious Studios, says of the game titled Get Over Trump's Wall.Įager to show it off in motion, the 12-year-old powers up his iMac that has been moved to the kitchen table in his parent's Salt Lake City home. The pair says because the game features images of Donald Trump and the "great wall" he claims he'll build between the United States and Mexico.
11, they launched their final product on Roblox's online community, it instantly took off, and, naturally, the amateur developers were ecstatic-until their game was pulled from Roblox's servers for violating the site's rules of conduct. That's what Chris Cordova and Sam Glick, two seventh graders from Salt Lake City, loved about a website called Roblox, a free, kid-friendly social network and development platform that gave them the resources to work on a game together over the summer. Thanks to games like Minecraft, young people have begun to adopt a more thoughtful approach to video games, using them as virtual platforms to express themselves and collaborate with others. While this might evoke images of inactive, disengaged teens who use the words "noob" and "lulz" too much, there's an often-overlooked aspect of gaming culture-creative development. Video games have become more integral to the lives of modern teenagers than almost any other form of entertainment.
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