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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago

A school shooting videogame made by the parents of a victim aims to change minds about gun control: 'This is not a scary game, it's an educational game'

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A school shooting videogame made by the parents of a victim aims to change minds about gun control: 'This is not a scary game, it's an educational game'

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 1 year ago
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The Final Exam is a harsh recreation of the horrors of school shootings, and a call to do something about it.
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    This… Is special kind of stupid lol

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      You play as a victim running from the shooter though.

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        It’s a 10 minute game, that at the end of it tries to convince the player to vote on new gun laws. Who is this targeting? Gamers that are into horror/terror games have played plethora of great games in that genre, have a hard time believing they’d even care to download the game for those 10 minutes.

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          Well at least they tried giving people an experience of a school shooter, not just sitting on their arse commenting on the Internet.

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            You know, that’s an experience everyone should hope to have. How can we beef up the realism a bit?

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          I know a lot of gamers who would be interested in a 10 minute game. Obviously not for $60.

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          They can do a new map DLC for every major shooting, that’d start to get the point across when there are hours of content.

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        I can see modders getting their hands on this and…subverting the original intention say.

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            The urge to troll?

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                Well no, I didn’t give it much thought it’s a comment on lemmy, not a manifesto.

                Creating a school shooter sim may be easy, but modding a political “game” built to highlight the horror of school shooting into something “funny” that reverses its premise entirely will make a headline.

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                  If people are letting hypothetical trolls control their actions then the trolls already won and they don’t even exist.

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                    What

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          Every shooter that allows custom maps from the late 90s and early 00s has a map resembling Columbine. If your reason to not make a game is because someone might turn it into something horrible, there would probably be no games.

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            Sigh, not suggesting they don’t make it.

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          Idk about that, modding game is only easier if there’s mod tool, else the extend of it will only be just replace some asset/resource. Quicker to just slap together some asset and compile…a new game.

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          That’s a really silly thing to worry about. Modders can do that with any game. It would be easier to mod fps games into ones where you attack kids anyways.

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            Who says I’m worried?

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      Why? It sounds like haunting experience from what I’ve read

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      More like you’re just a run-of-the-mill moron.

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