The Gray Gamers

An Italian game developerartist who found himself in a holy kerfuffle over an ultimate fighting game called faith fighters took it off  his site Molleindsutria, after several faith groups complained this past week.

It’s cartoon deities punching each other out.  Adolescent, yes, it’s no different that most flash fight games with the exception he uses his idea of world religion deities and peace activists.  Artist Paolo Pedercini uses games to express himself.  Molleindustria has had another game banned,  it exists to put up ‘radical games against the dictorship of entertainment’. I don’t know if that translates from Italian to English quite the way intended;  but  is this worth world religion advocates making a fuss about?

One has to wonder given the thousands of games out there, and the fact Faith Fighters  had been online for a year, who cued the outrage.
The background is here – the original game is here.  The artist’s statement on the take down is here.

His main response is Faith Fighter 2.