Can’t wait for this to release and then be sited as a reason why the next shooting happened by Republicans because “It’s them dang video games desensitizing these kids to violence.”
No parent should go through what they have gone through. And they want to express that through a game. It is an incredible idea, especially because of interactivity of the medium. I always believe that art can help hold a mirror to the society and this game proves that.
Oof… Man, to live in the US. I don’t envy you guys, though things aren’t really going the right direction here in the Netherlands, either.
I can’t wait to see speed runners cheese it and completely miss its point :/
No one has a record on speedrun.com time for me to get that world record!
I beleive in you!
You should stop imagining things to be mad at.
I’m not mad, its a joke. There is nothing to be mad at.
? Why come up with a hypothetical outcome just to make yourself mad? Is there some trend of speedrunners ruining educational games I am missing?
Its a joke, relax. Almost all games get speed run, no reason to expect this to be different. And any% speed runs often skip huge portions of the story, no reason to expect this to be any different either. There is nothing to be mad at, it’ll likely happen, it’ll likely be silly/funny to watch.
TBF, generally speedrunners start speedrunning games because they love it to death (ie. have played it through several times already) and want to start challenging themselves in new ways.
…or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.
Anyway, this don’t undermine the intention of the developer.
A videogame making views on YouTube is only incentive for first playthroughs as views on YouTube are usually for people’s reactions to stuff. Speedrunning really usually is a passion project.
Speedrunning isn’t THAT popular. If you want to chase trends there are much easier ways other than spending thousands of hours on a single game to have low chances of make a record.
Yeah, I get that, but on the more aggressively short cut games, you could argue its not the same game anymore if all the story is now skipped. Still entertaining to watch, and I do occasionally, but it can get a bit silly.
I’m still looking forward to the first:
“Hi guys, today I’m going to show you how the locker skip works, you just run at this locker while tapping crouch, annddddd we are clipped through the ground, and can now run to the exit. Easy game”
:D
any% with glitches is pretty much always a wild ride to watch.
on that note; man I need to get back on the IGN’s playlist of “devs react to speedruns”, most devs are such good sport when it comes to breaking their game :D
You can’t really make a point about reality by making a game. A game is a list of rules. You can adjust these rules however you like to see which players perform closest to what you think is the best way to play, and you can also sit and watch as all of those rules are cheesed because there’s no external factors to consider.
The game is gonna prop up whatever the developers think is right and be completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
Games should aim to be fun. I’m gonna get back to helldivers to deliver some managed democracy to alien scum!
Uhm, Columbine RPG anyone?
Where’s the simulator where I can shoot back?
In the “Fantasy” section.
Seems to me like this “simulator” is set to give a very biased impression. Real life isn’t so constrained as the minds of people who think they’re gonna beat violence without violence.
So as a kid at school you have a gun? This is simulating what the kids have dealt with.
I didn’t, but knew many who did.
The solution is gun culture changes and mental health for all. In Canada we can own long guns or handguns, but there is a level of respect and responsibilty that goes with it, that USA seems to lack.
This… Is special kind of stupid lol
You play as a victim running from the shooter though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Why? It sounds like haunting experience from what I’ve read
