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Brenda Romero calls out bestselling book for leaving out her creditRomero’s work was the inspiration behind a game in Tomorrow x3
Romero’s work was the inspiration behind a game in Tomorrow x3
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The novel’s acknowledgments section is otherwise scrupulous, and gives credit to several games, game developers, and authors who inspired the book as a whole, or individual games within it. It’s easy to think that maybe the similarity between the two games was a coincidence, but Zevin admits the inspiration that Train had in an interview withWired. “It is a take on Train, certainly,” she said, before detailing her own experiences with gaming and her boredom with cutscenes.
So what are the similarities between Romero’s Train and Zevin’s Solution? Train is a board game that Romero first presented at MIT, where players load miniature figures onto a train and ferry them to their destinations, eventually discovering that those destinations are concentration camps. Romero’swebsitedescribes Train as a game that “explores complicity within systems.” In Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow the character Sadie develops a game called Solution, a Tetris-like puzzler set in a factory, for an MIT class. In exchange for a lower score, players can choose to learn more about the factory, discovering that it supplies parts for the Nazis. The comparison is very easy to make.
We’ve reached out to Penguin Publishing for a comment regarding Brenda Romero’s acknowledgement.
