TheCloudOfSmoke
May 17th, 2007, 06:51
Ok, well I heard about this on my local TV news station. It's kind of sickening to hear that some guy has made an internet game based on the VA Tech massacre. Many people on the internet are outraged and want him to remove the game but he'll only do it if he gets $3000 in donations. But it seems that his website (googumproduce.com) has been taken down until he decides to remove the flash game (from what he has said on the game's newground page, which is still up).
WLTX-TV News, Weather, Sports for Columbia and the Midlands of South Carolina (http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=49744)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- An Australian man who created a game based on the Virginia Tech shootings is offering to pull it off the Internet only if he receives donations on his Web site.
Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Lambourn of Sydney posted a game called "V-Tech Rampage." That's a Philadelphia-based portal that allows amateurs to upload games they have created, play them and discuss them in forums.
In Lambourn's game, the player manipulates a character carrying a handgun around a campus. There are clear references to the Virginia Tech killings and to the student who shot to death 32 people and himself on April 16th.
The game has generated a furious debate online, with many posters in forums and newsgroups demanding that it be removed. Others have supported the game.
Local media report that Lambourn has received no donations.
V-Tech shootings retold as a flash game :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog (http://www.destructoid.com/v-tech-shootings-retold-as-a-flash-game-31518.phtml)
We knew it would happen sooner or later ... and here it is. Newgrounds just published a flash game based on the student shootings at Virginia Tech. This crude third person flash game allows you to play through the events as Cho Seung-Hui, navigating through campus to carry out the massacre methodically. Take a deep sigh and give it a go.
So who made it? Background info on the game designer and quotes from his blog that will make your blood boil after the jump.
The flash designer is Ryan Lambourn, an Australian living in Sydney who goes by the name "PigPen" and runs a site called GooGumProduce.com. After posting the image above named "Go Cho" he wrote the following on his blog:
"I've been working on a game based on the VTech Massacre! ...yeah, yeah, im a horrible person, i know."
At least he knows what he's getting himself into. It gets worse. This exchange between him and the FlashPortal operator (that refused to post the game) is also notable:
FP: You should be shot for making that game! Go ***** off and die b*tch!"
PP: ORLY? THEN ITS TIME FOR A BARBEQUE! I'll bring the meat, negroes bring the koolaid!
So yeah, he's approximately 48 hours away from getting his head kicked in by somebody. Nice MegaMan shirt, though.
Although the game isn't as polished as the others it will be compared to (Namely I'm OK and Super Columbine Massacre RPG), PigPen's game is just short of awful. In its defense, it's short and has structure. If you don't follow the plan accordingly, the cops capture you early. If you walk into a classroom, the game engine makes the walls transparent. When you fire shots near pedestrians, they'll freak out and start screaming and running. It's amateur but not too bad for a Flash platform.
The icing on the cake is definitely the soundtrack -- Collective Soul's 1994 single "Shine" plays on a constant loop in the background. The song's uplifting lyrics juxtaposed to the shooting is just about the creepiest thing in the game. Why that song? Ryan notes:
"It was one of Cho's favorite songs."
When you add this all up, it seems like the V-Tech shooting are secondary to the details put into the game. Although it's never stated, I can't help but feel that this his tribute to Cho. What a waste of talent.
Here is where you can find the game if you want to make your own judgement on it:
V-TECH RAMPAGE (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/378086)
It didn't work for me on IE7 but I got it to work on FF. If the admins think that providing a link to the game is a problem, feel free to remove the link.
WLTX-TV News, Weather, Sports for Columbia and the Midlands of South Carolina (http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=49744)
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- An Australian man who created a game based on the Virginia Tech shootings is offering to pull it off the Internet only if he receives donations on his Web site.
Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Lambourn of Sydney posted a game called "V-Tech Rampage." That's a Philadelphia-based portal that allows amateurs to upload games they have created, play them and discuss them in forums.
In Lambourn's game, the player manipulates a character carrying a handgun around a campus. There are clear references to the Virginia Tech killings and to the student who shot to death 32 people and himself on April 16th.
The game has generated a furious debate online, with many posters in forums and newsgroups demanding that it be removed. Others have supported the game.
Local media report that Lambourn has received no donations.
V-Tech shootings retold as a flash game :: DESTRUCTOID :: Hardcore video game blog (http://www.destructoid.com/v-tech-shootings-retold-as-a-flash-game-31518.phtml)
We knew it would happen sooner or later ... and here it is. Newgrounds just published a flash game based on the student shootings at Virginia Tech. This crude third person flash game allows you to play through the events as Cho Seung-Hui, navigating through campus to carry out the massacre methodically. Take a deep sigh and give it a go.
So who made it? Background info on the game designer and quotes from his blog that will make your blood boil after the jump.
The flash designer is Ryan Lambourn, an Australian living in Sydney who goes by the name "PigPen" and runs a site called GooGumProduce.com. After posting the image above named "Go Cho" he wrote the following on his blog:
"I've been working on a game based on the VTech Massacre! ...yeah, yeah, im a horrible person, i know."
At least he knows what he's getting himself into. It gets worse. This exchange between him and the FlashPortal operator (that refused to post the game) is also notable:
FP: You should be shot for making that game! Go ***** off and die b*tch!"
PP: ORLY? THEN ITS TIME FOR A BARBEQUE! I'll bring the meat, negroes bring the koolaid!
So yeah, he's approximately 48 hours away from getting his head kicked in by somebody. Nice MegaMan shirt, though.
Although the game isn't as polished as the others it will be compared to (Namely I'm OK and Super Columbine Massacre RPG), PigPen's game is just short of awful. In its defense, it's short and has structure. If you don't follow the plan accordingly, the cops capture you early. If you walk into a classroom, the game engine makes the walls transparent. When you fire shots near pedestrians, they'll freak out and start screaming and running. It's amateur but not too bad for a Flash platform.
The icing on the cake is definitely the soundtrack -- Collective Soul's 1994 single "Shine" plays on a constant loop in the background. The song's uplifting lyrics juxtaposed to the shooting is just about the creepiest thing in the game. Why that song? Ryan notes:
"It was one of Cho's favorite songs."
When you add this all up, it seems like the V-Tech shooting are secondary to the details put into the game. Although it's never stated, I can't help but feel that this his tribute to Cho. What a waste of talent.
Here is where you can find the game if you want to make your own judgement on it:
V-TECH RAMPAGE (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/378086)
It didn't work for me on IE7 but I got it to work on FF. If the admins think that providing a link to the game is a problem, feel free to remove the link.