Amanita changes the Chuchel design to get away from blackface

Chuchel is the most recent madcap point-and-click adventure from Amanita Designs, best known for Machinarium. The titular character is little ball of dust, named for a Czech word meaning just that. But his colour and design bear a notable resemblance to blackface, and that fact has come up several times in criticism of the game over the course of the year. Today, Amanita announced that this design is changing. “We would like to sincerely apologize to anyone who has been offended by the original appearance of Chuchel,” Amanita writes on Twitter. “As a team of peace-minded creative people, we simply do not want any of our games and characters even remotely associated with racism or any other form of hate crime.” The Czech studio attributes the character’s original appearance to “significant differences in culture and history between Central Europe and other regions,” as a result of which “we did not consider the possibility of Chuchel being associated with 'blackface', a theatrical racial stereotype which emerged in the US” in the 19th century.

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