Silver Script Games founder Alyx Jones had planned to roll out a trailer for her studio's new game, The Quiet Things, at last night's BAFTA awards—but as Jones shared in a LinkedIn post yesterday, she received a phone call the night before telling her the trailer had been pulled due to sensitive content.
"It was meant to be shown during the awards show and reveal our release date," Jones posted. "For the last two weeks I’d been working hard to cut this trailer together while already badly burned out, because I believed this was the biggest opportunity we were ever likely to get."
This wasn't the first time concerns had been raised about the trailer, which introduces the game's themes of childhood trauma, but Jones said she believed the issue was resolved to BAFTA's satisfaction.
"To have that pulled from under our feet the night before the show was devastating, especially after revising the trailer to remove imagery BAFTA flagged as potentially...
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