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Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

February 20, 2012 – 12:39 pm | 3 Comments

Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
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Making the ESRB complete every game won’t help

Submitted by Kat on September 29, 2006 – 4:06 pm3 Comments

So the new proposed legislation is to make the ESRB finish every game before they rate it. In theory, this would prevent game developers from “hiding” content from them. That’s in theory – in reality, it won’t work. To get to Hot Coffee, someone had to “hack” the game and find the code, then activate it. Unless the ESRB is planning to learn code and thoroughly scan every bit of said code, it won’t prevent developers from getting controversial content past them.

Furthermore, as Joystiq mentions, to review every game would take a lot of time, and our games would be delayed waiting for the ESRB to finish with them.

Marco

They could finish the game faster using cheats and proper developer documentation (including possible endings, if the game has more than one, etc) just to check the content. Other than that, after the Hot Coffee incident, I find it hard to a developer to include “hot” hidden content in a US release. ESRB could also claim they only review content accessible “from the box”, since mods could allow portions of the game not intended to be played/viewed by the player and do not make part of the content the developer allowed the player to access. Preety useless measure though, since most ESRB ratings were considered very accurate to begin with (don’t remember the link to the article, sorry)… It’s just a waste of your tax dollars IMO.
Richard

I personally would like to volunteer for that job if needed!
http://www.unfetteredblather.com Jason O

What defines “finished”. If it’s a game like Oblivion do you finish it by just doing the main storyline? Don’t many of the subplots and open areas of the game leave places where the developers might hide content?

Is this even feasible? This sounds like a ridiculous idea to me that was proposed by people who still think all video games play like Pac-Man or something.