Surprising more or less exactly nobody, In a Permanent Save State, a serious game based around the suicides of Foxconn employees in 2010, was pulled from Appleās App Store shortly after its listing.
The game became available on iTunes on Friday morning and, according to The Verge, got yanked within an hour. Even artist and designer Benjamin Poynter had suspected his game would not last long on Appleās platform, the Verge reports.
Poynter cited Molleindustriaās Phone Story, which was also banned from the App Store, as an influence on his project. Though neither Apple nor Poynter have publicly discussed the reasons given for the ban, the most likely are probably rules banning āobjectionable contentā and content that āsolely target[s] a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity.ā
Meanwhile, Poynter plans, like Molleindustria before him, to re-release the game for Android devices, in November.
Apple removes iPhone game based on Foxconn suicides from App Store [The Verge]
In a Permanent Save State [Benjamin Poynter]
