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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'

www.pcgamer.com 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'

The Final Exam is a harsh recreation of the horrors of school shootings, and a call to do something about it.

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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This... Is special kind of stupid lol
- You play as a victim running from the shooter though.
  
  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.
  
  it's an awareness tool, we're talking about the game right now, people will play it on streams, dumb reactionaries will say stupid shit about it, and we'll be talking about gun control bills all the while.
  It's like a PSA or political campaign ad, but interactive and intended to be viral.
  It's not trying to win game awards or start a video game franchise
  
  Well at least they tried giving people an experience of a school shooter, not just sitting on their arse commenting on the Internet.
  
  You know, that's an experience everyone should hope to have. How can we beef up the realism a bit?
  
  I know a lot of gamers who would be interested in a 10 minute game. Obviously not for $60.
  
  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.
  
  I can see modders getting their hands on this and...subverting the original intention say.
  
  Why would modders start with this basic game that lacks gunplay or NPCs to make a game where you play as a school shooter? The Unreal Engine empty project is closer to what you'd want as a starting point....
  
  The urge to troll?
  
  You can admit you didn't really give it much thought. I guess doubling down also works, maybe they'll mod it into a VR GTA clone MMO for lulz
  
  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.
  
  If people are letting hypothetical trolls control their actions then the trolls already won and they don't even exist.
  
  What
  
  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.
  
  I am not suggesting any of that.
  
  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.
  
  Sigh, not suggesting they don't make it.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Who says I'm worried?
- Why? It sounds like haunting experience from what I've read
- More like you're just a run-of-the-mill moron.

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