• BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world
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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 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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                    You’re suggesting it would be unwise to make a game to spread awareness about school shooters and gun control because people might make distasteful modifications of it where you play as a school shooter. That’s what I mean by hypothetical trolls.

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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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        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.