Hidden Villa hires two types of staff: year-round team members like James' position, and seasonal camp staff who only work for the duration of the summer camp program. "… I think for the individuals involved, they may have felt that that took too long, or that there might have been different ways to do that, so I respect that different perspective."įrom James' perspective, it wasn't just that the process took too long: he said he feels his voice as a Black person was brushed aside while others' voices, specifically white staff members, were what finally tipped the needle to get the tiles removed. "I think we tried to design a process (to remove the tiles) as thoughtful and inclusive as possible," Arca continued. "The expectations, from my perspective at least, morphed into, they need to be removed." "Initially we thought signage was an option," Arca said.
Arca resigned, citing health reasons, the day after his interview with the Voice, according to a June 11 letter sent to Hidden Villa staff from Hidden Villa Board President Peter Hartzell.Īrca said he and other camp leaders started a conversation about possibly adding educational signage to contextualize the tiles, "because there's a variety of perspectives on this."
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Hidden Villa's interim Executive Director Philip Arca stepped into the role in January, so the ongoing conversation around how to address the tiles "was new to me," Arca said in a June 9 interview. … I think for me, honestly, that was probably the biggest turning point." They told me that I was making the Duvenecks look racist, and it wasn't fair that they're not here to defend themselves.
At the end of it I said, ‘What are the other ways that we can be thinking about how to keep folks safe in this space?'" James said. "So I wrote a letter explaining my experience with the camper, and exactly what happened. James said at one point he was asked to write a letter about the issue to the Villa Voice, a newsletter that goes out to camp staff. "And I was consistently told that Hidden Villa is not ready to have these types of conversations." "I continued to bring that up in conversation and talk about how we (should) do something about it, before it got to the point that it's at now," James said in an interview. He immediately brought it up to his supervisors. So, you may want to be extra cautious when making important decisions and using the Death Rewind system as it can be quite the setback.Summer Camp Director Philip James, who resigned from his position June 5, said he was first made aware of the swastika tiles last summer, when a camper pointed them out to him. Another potential death in Chapter 10 can even set you all the way back to Chapter 1.
In one situation, we managed to use a Death Rewind that ended up setting us back two whole chapters in the game. The system isn't perfect though, as it's important to keep in mind that some character deaths can be decided from choices made in previous chapters. Upon dying, the rewind prompt will appear and when opting to use a life, your character will be taken back to the decision that ultimately lead to their death.
Unfortunately, Death Rewind doesn't exactly work as you might expect, as the mechanic relies on a life-based system that only allows you three rewinds throughout your playthrough - once those are up, you're on your own.
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There's a catch, though, as the Death Rewind system is locked behind the completion of at least one full playthrough or the purchase of the Deluxe Edition, which provides instant access to both the Death Rewind and Movie Mode features. Thankfully, The Quarry does feature a mechanic that allows you to rewind any deaths that you may encounter along your journey. If there's one thing that you quickly learn about The Quarry is just how easy it is to lose some of your favorite characters to choices that, at the time, seemed rather harmless.