It takes place somewhere between the Second World War and the Cold War, or in an alternative reality in the ten to fifteen years after the Second World War,' Ismail clarified. 'For us, there was never a question that Luftrausers takes place during a fictional and/or alternative reality conflict between the вЂgood guysвЂ™ and an undefined foe that we were spying on. Vlambeer was attracted by real historical accounts of possible enemy weapons that never actually existed, and wanted to place the player in one of those weapons. Ismail said this problem first arose in World War I, and continued through World War II and the Cold War, until the modern era provided powerful espionage tools capable of eliminating such fears. Somewhere between the 1900вЂ™s and the 1980вЂ™s, there was a period in which military intelligence was capable of determining whether an opposing military force was working on secret weapons, but not quite what those weapons were.' Luftrausers is a dogfighting game very much inspired by a very specific century in the history of mankind.

'From our perspective, we do not cast our player as a Nazi pilot. We think everybody who plays Luftrausers can feel that,' he wrote. 'We can leave our idea of what it is in there, and for us, the game is about superweapons. In a post on the Vlambeer blog, Rami Ismail acknowledged that it cannot rule out individual interpretations as 'wrong', but said Luftrausers is not about Nazi pilots. Luftrausers developer Vlambeer has apologised to those who have interpreted imagery in the game as suggesting the player is in the role of a Nazi pilot, but insisted that was not the indie's intention.

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