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Kotaku at Denver Film Festival
Next weekend I'll be heading out to the Denver Film Festival to talk about the relationship of video games and real world violence with Columbine Super Massacre RPG creator Danny Ledonne.
Ledonne and I have a long history: I was the first person to speak with him on the record, for the Rocky Mountain News, later I interviewed him about the Dawson shooting and then broke the news of his game being pulled from the Slamdance Game Festival. While Ledonne and I haven't always seen eye-to-eye, I've always found his take on things thoughtful and interesting. So the discussion should be as well.
It's part of the film festival because Ledonne's documentary, Playing Columbine, will be shown during the fest. If you're in the Denver area and want to check it out the details for the talk can be found over on the film fest page.
Events: Deadly Games: Echoes of Columbine [Denver Film Festival]
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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 Columbine1:04 PM on Mon Jul 30 2007
By Brian Crecente
2,185 views, 45 commentsLatest by L_K_M: @crecente: Hopefully educate the public? more »
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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. More » -
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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
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Columbine Creator Unmasked
A week after writing about Super Columbine Massacre RPG in the Rocky Mountain News, the game's creator was unmasked by a friend of one of the Columbine survivors. More »
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