Super Columbine Massacre RPG designer Danny Ledonne has already caught wind of similiarly-themed online Flash game titled V-Tech Rampage; take a wild guess what that particular title is based around. Ledonne's Super Columbine Massacre RPG game itself has been a topic of debate, leaving people questioning the merit of the title.

While Ledonne feels it is still possible to relate the stories of the Virgina Tech tragedy in a video game, he does not condone the attitude and principles of V-Tech Rampage designer Ryan Lambourn himself. Lambourn is well aware of the attention his own title is creating, and his solution to addressing the issue involves asking for monetary donations to encourage him to remove the game from the web altogether. This doesn't sit right with Ledonne, who comments on GamePolitics:

It would appear to me that Ryan has no intention of doing much other than making money and gaining immediate recognition after the Virginia Tech shooting. Inevitably, comparisons between SCMRPG and VTech Rampage are being made right now. Some bloggers despise both games equally whereas others recognize a level of commentary that SCMRPG attempted which was not evident in VTR. For myself I wish to point out that SCMRPG was never a for-profit endeavor and thus I never posted statements like that which is on the VTR game's homepage:

"I will take this game down from newgrounds if the donation amount reaches $1000 US, I'll take it down from here if it reaches $2000 US, and i will apologize if it reaches $3000 US."

This quote seems to indicate that Ryan has no intention of leaving the game up permanently or having a channel for discourse (as I have done) but instead has unfortunately chosen an artist's statement that reads more like a hostage note.

...I am forced to confront my own words by asking if the VTR game does ANY of what I outlined as the "exploration" of "sorrows and challenges of the human experience." I would like to ask bloggers to consider not whether a game about the Virginia Tech shooting SHOULD be made but how we might go about making a game that accomplishes more than VTR does with the subject matter.

Wolfwood via gamepolitics.com »