I’m Bert Harvey, the writer of the “Stop Uwe Boll” petition circulating out on the Internet. I’d like to share some background and hopefully clarify a few things. First, I work in the games industry. I work day in and day out with the folks who put in long, crazy hours making games. It’s really a labor of love, since the hours generally suck and the pay isn’t wildly exciting. But you get to create things, turn ideas into playable experiences and entertain an audience. A lot of man hours go into creating a game and when it finally hits the shelves, folks feel pretty invested in it. That’s who the petition was for originally: the folks who don’t have any control over what happens to the property they work on, but care about it all the same.
I actually liked Blackwood, which he co-wrote and directed, and I would hope he would create more films like this, as well as his other original film Heart of America. While not a great director, he can tell a good story. I just wish he’d tell his own instead of badly telling other folks’.
So there you have it.
