No violence. No sexism. No racism. Genuine storytelling.
Those were the conditions Charlie Chaplin’s family gave a Montreal-based video game company before giving them the exclusive rights to the character.
Those conditions were “much more important than the money,” said Yves Durand, a museographer and an expert on Charlie Chaplin.
Durand helped establish the Chaplin’s World museum in Switzerland with Chaplin’s children, and pitched the idea of a video game to the family with Robert Young, co-founder of B Df’rent Games.
As of this year, they received the worldwide licence to develop video games based on the images, films, music and archival materials of the filmmaker Charlie Chaplin — one of the film world’s very first superstars.
Chaplin’s character ‘lends itself to a game’
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