Silver Script Games founder Alyx Jones had planned to roll out a trailer for her studio’s new game, The Quiet Things, at last night’s BAFTA awards—but as Jones shared in a LinkedIn post yesterday, she received a phone call the night before telling her the trailer had been pulled due to sensitive content.
“It was meant to be shown during the awards show and reveal our release date,” Jones posted. “For the last two weeks I’d been working hard to cut this trailer together while already badly burned out, because I believed this was the biggest opportunity we were ever likely to get.”
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She continued that she offered to revise the trailer even further, but “was ignored,” with BAFTA allegedly maintaining that “there wasn’t enough time to put the appropriate warnings in place for the audience.”
“Art should make people feel something,” Jones continued in her post. “The Quiet Things is deeply personal to me. It’s my story. It’s about trauma, abuse, survival, and giving survivors a voice. It’s about people being shut down and silenced, and what that does to them. So there is something deeply painful about reliving that again now.”
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