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Slamdance Games Fest Moves to LA

Apparently Park City, Utah may be progressive enough to hold an indie film festival, but they're not quite forward-thinking enough to hold an indie game festival. I personally think that's crap, an excuse made up by the organizers to some how mitigate their responsibility for last year's fiasco, but if it means they're going to start showing a little backbone than I suppose letting them save face is fine.

The Guerrilla Gamemaker folks announced that this year's festival will instead be held in Los Angeles during the "spring/summer".

With the growth of independent games, and the issues facing the medium, Slamdance has decided to separate the Games Festival from the Film Festival, while still focusing on bringing independent artists together.

No mention is made in the press release of the competitions decision last year to first nominate and then kick Super Columbine Massacre RPG from the show. I think the venue isn't the only thing that needs to be changed before indie game makers start to take this competition seriously again.

News: Slamdance Games leaves Park City, UT [Arthouse Games]

10:00 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Brian Crecente
350 views, 7 comments

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Documentary About Game About Killing


I've always held that Danny Ledonne made the game based on the massacre at Columbine High School out of a sense of outrage. It was, I believed, a way for him to deal with the shooter and its aftermath. But the more Ledonne makes himself the center of the story, they less I believe that. In his latest work, Ledonne has created a documentary about the aftermath of his game about the aftermath of the massacre. Judging by the rather short trailer, it feels like the documentary is a little too much about Ledonne and not enough about the very real and complicated issues involving both the shooting and the idea of tacking serious subject matters with video games.
Playing Columbine

1:04 PM on Mon Jul 30 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,957 views, 45 comments

Latest by L_K_M: @crecente: Hopefully educate the public? more »

cold flashes

Virginia Tech Travesty In Crappy Flash Form

With the controversy that the Columbine-based game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! caused, the Virginia Tech tragedy was bound to receive a game version by someone. Flash site New Grounds has a flash game titled V-Tech Rampage. The worst part? V-Tech Rampage doesn't bring anything more than shoddy, tacky game play to the table. Free speech and free expression are great. Just make sure you've got something to say. Otherwise, it's noise. Brian Ashcraft More »

1:00 AM on Mon May 14 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
8,140 views, 33 comments

super columbine massacre rpg

Super Columbine, What It All Meant And Means

Newsweek's N'Gai Croal has a big three part interview with GDC director Jamil Moledina (dashing fella above). In the last part both talk about the Super Columbine Massacre RPG, a story we broke previously. Both look back on the controversary with 20-20 hindsight, giving us nuggets like this from Jamil: More »

9:00 PM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
933 views, 10 comments

heather chaplin

Slamgate: The Aftermath

It seems that Peter Baxter's messaging had been polished to a high sheen. More »
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Clip: Crecente, Ledonne Talk Columbine





Here's the clip from my appearance last night on Attack of the Show's The Loop. While I enjoyed the experience, I wish we had more time to discuss the issues and game on a deeper level. Brian Crecente

1:00 PM on Tue Jan 23 2007
By Brian Crecente
237 views, 33 comments

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Crecente, Ledonne Talk Columbine on AOTS

They're so nice they're having me on twice. Attack of the Show is having me on again for their Loop segment today. This time around we're talking about the whole kerfluffle surrounding Slamdance's decision to boot Super Columbine Massacre RPG! from their fest after first wooing it and then naming it a finalist. More »

3:10 PM on Mon Jan 22 2007
By Brian Crecente
72 views, 13 comments

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Breaking: New Slamdance Statement On Columbine Game

Earlier this month, we broke the news that Slamdance pulled accepted Super Columbine Massacre RPG based on moral grounds and concern for the festival's future. The exact quote at the time from Slamdance president Peter Baxter was: More »

5:00 PM on Fri Jan 19 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,554 views, 30 comments

super columbine massacre rpg

Slamgate: More Games Drop From Fest

I'm trying to keep all of the news updates, barring major ones, in one post. So I'm going to send you there to comment and read the details. But to summarize, more finalists have dropped out of the festival and more people have written up lengthy objections and treatises on the subject, including our very own John Browlee aka Florian. More »

5:00 PM on Tue Jan 9 2007
By Brian Crecente
331 views, 17 comments

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Developers Protest Slamdance Game Festival

It appears the news we broke last week of Slamdance removing the Columbine game from their lists of finalists and why has created quite the shitstorm, for lack of a better word. More »

4:32 PM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,211 views, 62 comments

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Slamdance: Columbine Pulled on Moral Grounds

I've written up a piece about the reasoning behind Super Columbine Massacre RPG being pulled from the Slamdance festival for the Rocky Mountain News. More »

8:51 PM on Fri Jan 5 2007
By Brian Crecente
1,240 views, 41 comments

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Exclusive: Columbine Game Kicked From Competition

By: Brian Crecente More »

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danny ledonne

Clips: Columbine Super Massacre RPG Trailer

In preparation for its appearance as a finalist at Slamdance 2007, Danny Ledonne has put together an interesting trailer for his game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! The clip includes snippets from the game as well as sound clips from the many radio and TV interviews and discussions of the game and some quotes from the games' reviews. Brian Crecente More »

2:00 PM on Wed Dec 27 2006
By Brian Crecente
1,046 views, 55 comments

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Columbine Game Creator Does Radio

Ian Bogost points out that Super Columbine Massacre RPG creator Danny LeDonne, who I've written quite a bit about, was recently on San Diego public radio (KPBS) to talk about violent videogames. More »

12:00 PM on Thu Dec 7 2006
By Brian Crecente
229 views, 4 comments

ian bogost

Bogost Talks About Dawson Shooting

I posted an interesting Q&A with Danny LeDonne, the guy who created the Super Columbine Massacre RPG, earlier today. In it LeDonne talks about his reaction to finding out his game has been linked to the shooting spree at Dawson College in Montreal. More »

6:00 PM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Brian Crecente
125 views, 12 comments

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Feature: Columbine RPG Creator Talks About Dawson Shooting

By: Brian Crecente More »

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kimveer gill

Montreal Gunman Played Super Columbine Massacre

It's a pretty distressing day for gaming. First, Tyrone Spellman beat a 17 month old child to death when she knocked over his console. And now, news reports indicate that Kimveer Gill — the gunman responsible for yesterday's Montreal shooting spree — was influenced by the home-brew game Super Columbine Massacre. More »

11:40 AM on Thu Sep 14 2006
By kotaku.com
4,785 views, 82 comments

eric harris

Columbine Diaries Reference DOOM and Duke

The private diaries of Columbine shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold have been published on the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News websites as a 945-page PDF, and include references to inspirations ranging from Nazism, terrorist attacks, world wars and riots, to DOOM and Duke Nukem. More »

7:40 PM on Thu Jul 6 2006
By egauger
1,925 views, 12 comments

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