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Survival Island 3: Australia Story 3D game that encourages players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death causes outrage

 

A game that requires players to bludgeon Aboriginal Australians to death has prompted outrage and been removed from stores, raising questions as to how an app that warns players to "beware of Aborigines" was ever allowed online.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for the immediate removal of Survival Island 3: Australia Story 3D from Apple's iTunes App Store and Google Play and demanding an apology from the app's developers.

According to a screenshot on the Killing Indigenous Australians is not a game! change.org petition launched on Friday evening, white men armed with bows and arrows are told to "beware of Aborigines" and must shoot or beat Indigenous people to death to survive and earn points.

 

 

Further screenshots posted by gamer R2 Darksaber before the app was removed from app stores overnight depict a dead Aboriginal Australian lying on parched ground and a white arm wielding a stone axe.

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The game's description promises users an "unforgettable experience".

"Your goal is to survive... You also have to fight with aboriginals ... It will be an unforgettable experience, so just enjoy!"

 

An Aboriginal man is seen lying on the ground after apparently being bludgeoned to death.

 

The game is rated 12+ by Apple and was released last month, costing $4.49.

It has variously been described as "absolutely abhorrent", "abominable" and "beyond racist" by petitioners who have flocked to condemn the game's contents.

Racial Discrimination Commissioner Tim Soutphommasane encouraged people offended by the game to make an official complaint.

 

 

"It's unacceptable to see such promotion of violence and hatred against Aboriginal people," he said.

Bianca Jagger, human rights activist and former wife of Mick Jagger, tweeted that she was shocked by the "despicable" app.

 

Apple confirmed that the app is not available in its App Store but would not make any further comment, while Google declined to comment. Fairfax Media has been unable to verify the app and has contacted its developer for comment.

 

Selling games that promote racism and negative stereotypes of Indigenous Australians is not acceptable!

'Survival Island 3- Australia Story 3D', is a game available on a number of App Stores, developed by NIL Entertainment, that promotes violence towards Australia’s Indigenous people by allowing and even encouraging the players to kill Indigenous Australians.

The game shamelessly promotes the fact that you will “have to fight with aboriginals†and uses warning messages like, “Beware of Aborigines!†when Indigenous people appear on screen. The game portrays Indigenous Australian’s as violent and aggressive. As well as trying to promote the Indigenous characters as authentic representations of a diverse culture through the description phrasing, “Meet real aboriginalsâ€.

Indigenous Australians face daily racism and discrimination. Indigenous Australians are over policed and continue to die at the hands of the state. This app further perpetuates the denial of Indigenous Australians humanity. It associates us with flora and fauna of the Australian landscape.

By shooting ‘dangerous Aboriginals’, this app makes us inhuman, it re-enforces racial violence, lack of punishment for white people taking black lives, it makes fun and sport of massacres and Frontier violence. This App is another colonialist frontier and continues to exploit the deaths of many Aboriginal people without regard to the trauma that it instigates.

The profiting of historical genocide and introducing these genocides as entertainment completely disregards the continual suffering of our people.

Sign this petition to take a stand against racism towards Indigenous Australians and to demand that this racist game be pulled with an apology from NIL Entertainment for its racist conduct. The App Stores that sold this app and its developers should be held accountable for not only promoting racism but profiting off it.

 

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