Playing Columbine: A Documentary By Danny Ledonne
Danny Ledonne ignited the game industry when he released his 16-bit homemade game Super Columbine Massacre RPG. It polarized anyone who came across it. Either you were a staunch supporter of the title, claiming that Ledonne has every right to express his opinions on the matter through the medium of gaming, or this game was viewed as overtly gratuitous and the embodiment of everything that is wrong about modern video games. Due to the incendiary nature of the game, it was pulled from the roster of independent games featured at the 2007 Slamdance Guerilla Gamemakers Competition.
While he made his claim to fame as a game designer, Ledonne is a filmmaker also. He graduated from Emerson College of Boston, Massachusetts with a film degree. Now he turns the camera on himself in his upcoming documentary Playing Columbine: A true story of video game controversy. The documentary was filmed to address the main moral questions behind the game, “What does it mean to play Columbine? What can we gain from interactive media - particularly with regard to difficult subject matter? Why is playing Columbine so controversial when watching or reading about it has become so commonplace?”
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Posted to Movies-DVDs, Video Games on 30 July 2007
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While he definitely seems like an intelligent guy and the idea of SCMRPG has a certain brilliance, it seems like there's a little too much ego in doing this. Sure he's a film student and it's an obvious subject for a documentary but a film about your own game? Well, at least we know he wasn't just doing it for a laugh like the dork who did the V-tech game.
And uh... Thompson's sure rocking that tan.