Posted May 30, 2018 3:14 pm by Comments

By Brandon Curtis

A video game that simulates school shootings was set to be released on June 6th by a company called Revived Games, but the release was cancelled after over 200,000 people signed a change.org petition requesting that it never see the light of day.

The petition can be seen below:

The game was marketed as a ‘dynamic SWAT simulator’, but people weren’t buying it because the player could play as either the shooter or as a SWAT team member.

After the backlash, the developer released the following statement:

Hello everyone,

Since this games storefront has been live, I have been stormed with accusations and heavy critics from people across the globe. While I see everyone’s points of view and where are they coming from – I wanted to clarify a few things:

First of all, this game does not promote any sort of violence, especially any soft of a mass shooting. As I said in the description of the game:

Active Shooter is essentially a dynamic SWAT simulator in which dynamic roles are offered to players.

Originally when this game started its course of the development, I have planned on having SWAT only based game-play. Then I thought about adding more gameplay to …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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