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Columbine Game Kicked From Slamdance Festival
Imaria writes "A Kotaku post has the news that Super Columbine Massacre RPG! has been kicked out of the Slamdance Gamemaker Festival. After reaching the finals, the organizers were forced to remove the game from the running to appease mounting external pressure. According to the post, this is the first time in the Slamdance Festival's 13 year history that they have removed either a game or film due to criticism. From the article: '[Game creator] Ledonne said that he bears no ill will toward the festival, but that the decision to pull the game does raise concerns about freedom of speech and video game development. "I don't want to paint them as the villain in this," he said. "I don't think the real issue is a couple of guys at Slamdance who decided to reject my game, it's the larger pressures placed on them."'"
But it's cool to play as the Nazi's in some of those WWII FPS games? Or it's ok to play GTA and kill cops and hookers? Most people don't object loudly to these games because we're relatively desensitized to this type of violence, but when it hits so close to home, something we all read about or saw on the television, then the games is WRONG! I don't know what the game is about so I can't say whether or not it's a game that should be condemned like this. I think it is impressive that someone is pushing an envelope of this nature with the government in the position it's in. How many other people would have the balls to do something like this? I can only imagine the sort of email they get about this game. We do still live in a free country, right?
Taste only comes into it if the game is meant to be enjoyable or fun. It is a game in the same sense that Saving private Ryan is a movie. It reexamines a terrible and violent event, not for the enjoyment of the viewers but because there is a lesson to be learned.
However last time I said this I took hell for it but so be it.
You mad