The Censor's Desk

To censor or not to censor, that is the question — and the game.

Imagine you are a government censor working in imperial Japan or an official in the CCD (Civil Censorship Detachment) working under General Douglas MacArthur in the late 1940s during the Allied Occupation of Japan. Or a “self-regulator" in the post-Occupation era when censorship has ostensibly been abolished. When faced with morally or politically sensitive materials that come across your desk, what do you do? The Censor’s Desk places the player in the shoes of a new bureaucrat who must decide whether to ban, approve, or redact the texts that come across their desk based on rapidly shifting  political and practical considerations as well as a set of constantly changing rules that were never clearcut from the start.

Credits

Programming, Game Design - Branden Heng
Narrative, Game Design, Research - Hannah Chuang
Research, Narrative, Game Design - Hunter Dalton
Research, Narrative - Fatimah Hossain
Art - Danielle Harris
Sound Design - Randal Holt
Supervisor - Kirsten Cather

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