If you were wondering what I lost in the the big Moriarty Glitch Incident…. this.
Don’t worry I can make it again!
Aren’t you worried about the whole Geneva convention thing with the Red Cross on watson’s arm band?
Eeh.
The Red Cross symbol has been used since 1864 to denote in times of armed conflict that military nurses and doctors are protected under the Geneva Conventions.
Video game developers have got into trouble for using it to evoke the general concept of “health pack” or “medical kit” because those uses dilute the meaning of that symbol, and the Red Cross doesn’t want that.
I think that is very different to using it in a historical setting to denote that a character has actually been volunteering for the Red Cross as a military doctor.
I’m assuming the Red Cross had an issue with that sort of thing they would go after things like the BBC’s period drama ‘The Crimson Field’ and the other gazillion historical works of fiction set in WW1 that have nurses and doctors wearing historical uniforms before they come after a small indie game that will be lucky if it sells 100 copies.
