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Game About Killing Poachers Vies For Top Prize In Microsoft Student Tech Contest
theodp writes: GeekWire reports on a group of students from Nepal who will be competing for the $50K top prize in Microsoft's Imagine Cup student tech contest with a first-person shooter in which players track down and kill poachers. "Until and unless the player kills all the poachers," reads the description for Defend Your Territory, "he/she cannot progress to next level. To make the game more interesting, there will be lots of weapons and vehicles unlock." So, is this the inspiration Google needs to take their anti-poaching drone program to the next level?
We don't encourage people to stalk and kill murderers, rapists etc.
It would be better if you got to play as a lion/hyena/rhino. More original and less morally ambivalent.
We don't encourage people to stalk and kill murderers, rapists etc.
No, we don't.
That's still every Batman game.
The PETA loons are out tonight. I'd like to see how far you'd go into starvation before you do WHATEVER it takes to feed yourself.
Poachers aren't taking the job because they are starving. They have high powered weapons and expensive off road vehicles. They choose this profession because there is a huge amount of money in it, because, well it is illegal.
These people are the equivalent of of people in the U.S. who kill people for their sneakers.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.