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Playing Columbine is a 2008 American documentary film produced and edited by American independent filmmaker Danny Ledonne. [1] [2] The film follows the video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! in which players experience the Columbine High School massacre through the eyes of the murderers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
The game represents a critique of how traditional media sensationalized the shooting, as well as parodying video games themselves. Super Columbine Massacre was created with ASCII's game development program RPG Maker 2000 and took approximately six months to complete.
[1] [271] [272] Parents of some of the victims filed several unsuccessful lawsuits against video game manufacturers. [273] [274] Jerald Block believes their immersion in a virtual world best explains the massacre. [36] While Brooks Brown disagrees that video games caused the massacre, he agrees elements of their plan came from video games. [275]
Winner of the 2003 Academy Award for best documentary, the film explores the uniquely American gun culture through the 1999 mass shooting at Colorado’s Columbine High School, which left 15 dead ...
In 2005, game designer Danny Ledonne created a role-playing video game where the player assumes the role of Harris and Klebold during the massacre, entitled Super Columbine Massacre RPG!. [159] The game received substantial media backlash for allegedly glorifying the pair's actions.
In 2005 he released his first and to date only video game, called Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, that replayed the events of the Columbine High School massacre. Ledonne created the game to explore what caused the gunmen to commit the atrocity and to dispel the myths that violent video games had played a role in the massacre. [6]
Pages in category "Films about the Columbine High School massacre" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In fact, multiplayer video games in which players kill each other have long been a popular pastime: ... The most prominent example is the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton ...