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'Columbine RPG' Creator Discusses the Dawson Shooting
Back in May, Brian Crecente of Kotaku and the Rocky Mountain News had a chat with the maker of the 'Columbine RPG'. Today, he talks again with game-maker Danny LeDonne about possible connections between his game and the Dawson shooting. From the article: "My very first reaction, frankly, was to head to my toilet bowl and throw up. I knew what was in the works and I knew the next week would be spent keeping my head above water while the press tried to bury me with guilt-laden questions and implications of complicity in murder. I also knew that this was no time to fold or get weak-kneed. I made a game. I believed in it. Now it was time to defend it. No one would do that except me."
> Columbine game involves shooting unarmed children.
Carmageddon involves running over unarmed children, senior citizens and cheerleaders.
I mean, I know it's not exactly a historical simulation, I'm just sayin'.
there is no need to sign your posts. this isn't usenet. your username is right there above your post. stop it.
Have you played the game? Have you seen screenshots of the game? It is in no way, other than in a literal sense, a graphic presentation of murder. For God's sake, it looks like Pokemon! And from what I hear, it really does examine the event, and not just tosses you in and says "kill as many people as you can for no reason muahahahaha!"
Anyone else think the comments just weren't rendering right before they turned off ABP and saw ads?
There have been many people above me claiming that the game is in bad taste and that its creator is a dick. Please before you go shooting your mouth off please download and actually play the game through. It is not only a work of satire, its an obvious one at that.
It's not as blatent as Southpark's satire typically is, but it is there and anyone over the age of 13 should be able to see it.
I'd liken it to Gullivers Travels, you read that book when you are young and think, "hmm great story". A few years later you come away thinking "Perhaps that book was about England".
Not to nitpick, but your, and the GP's posts seem to presume that the shooter was a student at Dawson. The shooter was not, in fact, a student at this school, so the argument that he may have been a victim of bullying isn't all that valid. He was 25, and a graduate of a different school; he never attended the college where he opened fire.
The wii is the revolution, comrade!
I went through the first half of the game (then, to be honest, it got a bit tedious), but I found that the (attempted, reasonably successfully) value in it was something like an in-depth report with a little more personal involvement. It's kind of like the 9/11 Commission Report graphic novel... it applied a different medium to a popularily underunderstood event to give insight that might not be normally taken.
Do I think it could have been done better-- sure, in quite a few ways, but this for being the first game of its type put out by some guy, it was a decent experimental volley.
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Here's one with a link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ_manager
There was one back in the 80s - so that would be two games. At least.
Panzer General, dammit! My God, how young ARE you people that you've forgotten one of the most highly praised (and damned entertaining) WWII games of the early 90's? And IIRC, if you executed your strategy well, you even had a chance to invade Washington DC by war's end. If that doesn't qualify to be among "WWII games where you played on the German side" then nothing does.