Running one of the most popular games on the planet has its downsides. Any minor flaws will be pointed out to death, people will pester you endlessly about expansions and sequels, and inadvertent violations of the actual Geneva Convention will suddenly be in the public eye.

Apparently, that's what happened to "Among Us" in 2020. Posted on Twitter yesterday (open in new tab) evening, the official Among Us account divulged a "fun fact" about the game's development: "After the game got bigger in 2020, (Innersloth) had to change the color of the medbay crosses. Thus, the now-familiar blue cross adorns the walls of the game's medical room, which is not in complete violation of countless international peace treaties.

Nor do the developers exaggerate. The terms of the Geneva Convention are all in black and white: one cannot display "the emblem of a red cross with arms of equal length, vertical and horizontal, completely surrounded by a white background" without the express permission of the authorities.

To be fair, they obviously don't care that much when they're doing it on a small Steam game that no one has ever heard of, like the two years "Among Us" was distributed.

"Among Us" is not the only game in violation of this law; according to a reply to the original tweet by Mike Rose of No More Robots (opens in new tab), the publisher has in the past "failed console certification on three different games regarding this Maybe that's how they found out about "Among Us": this may actually be why Innersloth discovered it (open in new tab). There are several other games that had to be hastily changed after launching with the icon. I honestly had no idea that international human rights law could be violated so easily.