Too Soon For A Columbine Videogame?

neutralino writes "Rocky Mountain News has a story about a computer game based on the Columbine massacre. From the article: 'Called Super Columbine Massacre RPG, the game mixes cartoonish scenes with photographs of Harris and Klebold, pictures taken from newspapers and television stations and excerpts from their writings... [The game's creator] said he wanted to create something profoundly unique and confrontational that would promote a real dialogue on the subject of school shootings.'"

Comments

Re:Time to play the Devil's Advocate

[StonyUK]

I hope you take the same attitude after somebody publishes a game where the central theme is the re-enactment of your mother's rape and your sister's death by a drunken driver.

It's just art after all.

Bullshit.

[kingsmedley]

[The game's creator] said he wanted to create something profoundly unique and confrontational that would promote a real dialogue on the subject of school shootings.

What? Are you kidding me?!? This guy isn't interested for a second in promoting a dialogue an anything except getting his name out in the press. He's using the ever-popular (and seriously flawed) assumption that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

OK, you want to talk about school shootings? That's easy. They are simply an extension of the workplace shootings we see from time to time. They are fueled by the same pressures and happen for the same reasons. People seem to think that just because they happen in school there is something different about them. But the school is the shooters workplace, right?

OK, dialogue is finished.