More on epilepsy in Cliffs of Dover

[Gamekeeper]

Originally Posted by Luthier

Our game did cause wide-scale epilepsy failures when tested. Propellers, muzzle flashes, smoke puffs, explosions, falling bombs, flying or taxiing between buildings, sun shining through canopy framework, etc, they were all causing potentially seizure-inducing flashes.

This isn't the first game to be affected by this form of filtering, Ubisoft are one of the early adopters of a system used throughout broadcasting and spreading through the gamig industry.

Ubisoft is Screening Video Games for Epilepsy

According to the above article Ubisoft is using the Harding flash and pattern analyser to conduct testing.

Originally Posted by Hardingfpa

The HardingFPA video game systems are designed to analyse live video game play direct from the game platform (console, PC, or hand-held device) to verify compliance with the various Proprietary Guidelines (provided by the console manufacturers) that safeguard and protect photosensitive players and onlookers from imagery induced epileptic seizures. Video Games of all types have been known to contain the harmful image sequences that have been shown to trigger Photosensitive Epileptic seizures. HardingFPA systems can be applied at any point in the development process - allowing developers, publishers and console manufacturers to use it in-house to provide immediate answers on image safety and to ensure that their games are safe to play. The HardingFPA range of systems offer interfaces to a wide range of Game platforms based on HDMI, analogue component, S-Video and Composite signals and can also analyse game play captured to file.

Harding Games Analysis

After tweaking we don't yet know to what degree video will be degraded we can only hope that the dev team look into options like turning filters off, though this seems unlikely for the international version, past experience shows that the devs do work hard to keep us satisfied we should be patient and see what happens in the weeks ahead. Tantrums and threats resolve nothing.