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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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    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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                  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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                    I am not suggesting any of that.

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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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