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School Shooter: North American Tour 2012 Courts Controversy

By james_fudge

Checkerboarded Studios is testing the boundaries of good taste and free speech with a new game modification for Half-Life 2 where the goal is partake in a school shooting called School Shooter: North American Tour 2012 (thanks Andrew Eisen). The Escapist caught up with mod maker known only as "Pawnstick," who attempted to explain the motivation of creating such a mod.

The gist of his comments on the game are not about how shocking, horrible, or in bad taste a mod such as his is, but about how there haven't been any exciting games representing school shootings. He calls Super Columbine Massacre "fucking boring." His inspiration for the mod came from Bully: Source, which he calls says try to "educate the player" and are "almost always fucking garbage."

Here is what he had to say about media coverage of Columbine:

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).