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Recently the wonderful Elizabeth LaPensée released a 2D sidescroller game called Thunderbird Strike where you “fly from the Tar Sands to the Great Lakes as a thunderbird protecting Turtle Isl…
Ecoterrorism my ass.
This is the kind of typically gross and over-the-top reaction I’d expect from corporate bodies.
I love that the phrase "ecoterrorism" is used against people trying to stop oil and mining companies from destroying the environment and not against the companies that are, y'know, enacting the destruction and making places uninhabitable for other humans?
Why a game centering indigenous resistance matters in a new era of oppression
Dia Lacina’s article on Thunderbird Strike and the backlash from Energy Builders is very good
Thunderbird Strike
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/434v39/this-game-developer-wants-to-create-space-for-indigenous-stories, https://www.thunderbirdstrike.com/
Responding to a lack of indigenous media representation, Metis-Anishinaabe descendent Elizabeth LaPensée has created Thunderbird Strike. The videogame allows the player to destroy oil pipelines as a thunderbird, a North American indigenous symbol. Thunderbird Strike was created as a medium of protest against a large pipeline pipeline in Michigan, USA.
Responder a falta de representación de los pueblos originarios en los medios de comunación, descendente Métis-Anishinaabe Elizabeth LaPensée ha creado Thunderbird Strike. El videojuego permite a los jugadores destruir oleoductos como un pajaro de trueno, un símbolo indígena de Norteamérica. Thunderbird Strike due creado como un medio de protesta contra un oleoducto grande en Michigan, EE.UU.
Wow!
That link about the ‘Thunderbird Strike’ game that I posted the other day has been liked+reblogged over 600 times.
I’m glad people are taking notice and hope that the creator gets lots of support from people as a consequence.
“Owning Our Resistances With Thunderbird Strike” An analytic look at an upcoming iOS/Android game https://medium.com/@dialacina/owning-our-resistances-with-thunderbird-strike-9a8a9f2cd8b1
