I wanted to submit this one in Dream Build Play 2008. KooChooLoo! was made for Xbox360 . but I was not able to submit my game because of this racism rule by Microsoft:
"Residents of the following countries are ineligible to participate: Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Sudan; and Syria. The Contest is void in these geographic locations and where prohibited or restricted by law."
After that I decided to put my game on Xbox Live Indie Games . but again rasicm rules??
you can read what MS said to my Cousin who was helping me to submit my game (he is living in Australia)
From: Stephanie Reimann [
sreimann@microsoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 4:16 PM
To: Morteza Bahrami Lamjiri
Subject: RE: Query
Mory-
Your current game titled KooChooLoo!!! was submitted previously as KooChooLoo! and was found to be an account from
Iran. Even though it is currently being submitted from a Australian account the U.S. maintains a
trade embargo on Iran,
Microsoft may not sell or support, directly or indirectly, products or services to Iran. Microsoft cannot partner with a third party if we know or have reason to know that they might be sending our products to Iran. Current international discussions of increasing sanctions on Iran will have little impact to the existing comprehensive controls on Microsoft products to Iran. Therefore this account will remained banned and this game will not be approved.
Thanks
Stephanie
here is a video from my game :
http://www.vimeo.com/7608055