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How the Prison Architect developers broke the Geneva Conventions

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From the initial time of working on Prison Architect Mark Morris and Chris Delay knew that it was a game that would agitate controversy. They were work on Introversion Software which is Introversion a British video game developer based in Walton-on-Thames. But they never expected that a simulator about the imprisonment of sweet, blobby humans had the abilities to make them criminals themselves. So what is their crime? Showing a small, five-pixel wide red cross on the ambulance hood and backpacks of Paramedics. You might think to read it sound laughable but the fact is those five pixels exhibited just as an internationally protected symbol and this is happening. As a consequences, Delay and Morris received a concerning mail from the British Red Cross days before Christmas. The emails words were, "My immediate reason for writing is that it has been brought to our attention that in your game ‘Prison Architect’ a Red Cross emblem is displayed on vehicles,".  For your