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Culture and rights

Puck & Glory is a free, independent cartoon hockey game. Its 42 teams come from Canada and Europe, and many carry a city's history, food and landmarks, or a people's culture. This page says how we handle that, what is still open, who we hope will help, and how to tell us when we get something wrong.

How the game handles culture

  1. When a choice could go either way, we choose the more respectful one.
  2. The first release has no budget for commissioned art. Where a culture's own art, language or music would belong, the game shows something plainly neutral and imitates nothing.
  3. Each team plays in its own city, and its arena is there too.
  4. The two Indigenous teams, the First Nations Thunderbirds and the Sápmi Reindeer, each have a review of their own. Until people from those communities take part, anything that reaches too far is withdrawn or made neutral.
  5. Trademarks and controlled names become plain words: "the 1896 Games", not the Olympic name. Real places keep their real names, but the game never copies their logos, protected images or lighting.
  6. Food is named for what the stall serves: a dish usually made with meat or animal fat is called by its vegetarian version.
  7. A concern holds up a release only when it is clearly a matter of respect or of law. Those are tracked under the labels "inclusiveness" and "legal". Everything else is reviewed after launch, team by team.

Open concerns

We know about these, and each one has a ticket. The first six are settled before the first release; the rest wait for the people whose culture they touch.

  1. Four arenas stood in another city than their team.
  2. Stockholm's three-crowns crest.
  3. Berlin's team and its walking figure.
  4. Valletta's eight-pointed cross.
  5. Charlottetown's storybook house.
  6. Whitehorse's Gold Rush name and pickaxe.
  7. The First Nations Thunderbirds.
  8. The Sápmi Reindeer.
  9. Placeholders in six arenas.
  10. Art that comes near famous works.

Who we hope will help

Nobody has been approached yet.

  • Inuit, for Iqaluit (Nunavut).
  • Dene and Métis people, for Yellowknife (Northwest Territories).
  • Yukon First Nations, for Whitehorse.
  • Métis and Anishinaabe people, for Winnipeg (Manitoba).
  • Acadians, for Moncton (New Brunswick).
  • Francophone Quebecers and Kanien'kehá:ka, for Montréal.
  • Mi'kmaq, for Halifax (Kjipuktuk).
  • First Nations people, for the First Nations Thunderbirds.
  • Sámi people, for the Sápmi Reindeer.
  • A native speaker of Canadian French, to review the whole game in French.

Contributors are credited by name, and commissioned work is paid. Nothing a contributor gives is tied to rewards or play.

Tell us about a concern

Choose CULTURE for respect, representation or a fact we got wrong, and RIGHTS for a trademark, a copyright or a person's likeness.

Your report becomes a public issue on the game's GitHub page, labelled for review. Your email address and your IP address are never published.