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posted by janrinok on Monday May 28 2018, @02:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-happy dept.

School Shooting Game Angers Steam Users, Developer 'Likely' Changing It

Earlier this week, a game called Active Shooter appeared on Steam. It'd be nothing more than another heap of hacked-together pre-purchased assets—or an "asset flip," as they're known on Steam—if not for its subject matter. It's about mass shootings.

The unreleased game's Steam store page describes it as a "dynamic S.W.A.T. simulator" in which you play as a shooter, a S.W.A.T. team member trying to neutralize them, or a civilian. Its trailer depicts a player running down school halls and through classrooms, indiscriminately murdering teachers until a S.W.A.T. team shows up.

Complaints about the game have been fierce, and yesterday the person behind the game said they'll probably remove the option to play as the mass shooter. Almost as soon as the game's store listing went up, Steam users took to the game's forums to voice their distaste.

The developer will send "press review" copies out on May 30.

The Hill mistakenly claimed that Active Shooter is "created by video game company Valve" (they have since corrected their article).

Recently, Valve made headlines when it demanded that developers remove "pornographic content" from visual novel games. Some developers/publishers have since received apologies and their games are under re-review.


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday May 28 2018, @10:14AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 28 2018, @10:14AM (#685078) Journal

    people offended by it are snowflakes

    Rrriiight! Snowflakes. More like big effing icicles sometimes.

    Meet snowflake 1: NCOSE

    VICTORY: Steam to remove sexually explicit and violent videogames from platform. [endsexualexploitation.org]

    National Center on Sexual Exploitation [wikipedia.org]

    Morality in Media, Inc. (MIM), doing business as National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) since 2015,[1] is an American, non-profit organization that was established in New York City in 1962... NCOSE also works through constitutional means to curb traffic in material they consider obscene and uphold the Judeo-Christian standards of decency in media.
    ...
    In 2017, NCOSE placed EBSCO on its Dirty Dozen List because its databases, widely used in schools in the United States, "could be used to search for information about sexual terms."...NCOSE also put the American Library Association on their Dirty Dozen List, along with Amazon.com.

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    Meet snowflake 2: Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick [salon.com]

    Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Video games, abortion to blame for school shootings — but not guns

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @09:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 28 2018, @09:52PM (#685320)

    What about it? There are plenty of right-wing snowflakes (such as the people offended by those kneeling during the anthem, who I criticized vehemently), just as there are plenty of left-wing snowflakes. Don't be a partisan hack who assumes there are only two sides.