9. On pirate libraries

Back to a slightly longer piece this week. This one leads off in a number of directions and somehow avoids talking about copyright.

If you own a Playstation 4 then undoubtedly you’ve played (2016). A ‘Triple A’ big budget adventure celebrating pretty much cliche of both action adventure movies platform videogames, is a grand linear story of hunting pirate treasure. Not just any pirate’s treasure but the fabled pirate colony of ‘Libertalia’. In the game, by the time you get there, the pirates are long gone having argued amongst themselves and killed each other. Libertalia, beyond the rendered world of Uncharted, was for a long time rumoured to have actually been a place existing as a multi-racial, self-governed colony established by late 17th century pirates somewhere in Madagascar.