Watercoolergames has an interesting write-up about the Super Columbine Massacre RPG, online reaction to it, and how the Associated Press sensationalized an already controversial subject to even further raise the hair on the necks of people everywhere. I’m not sure I agree with using videogames for more than just entertainment, but people will use anything as a vehicle to get a message across these days, so it is inevitable.

I knew that public reaction to the game would be largely negative. I’ve received plenty of hate mail just for talking about the game. But I don’t think I was fully prepared for the widespread ignorance that has accompanied reception to the game. I think those of us deeply mired in the fields of Serious Games or Games for Change or Videogames with an Agenda or even just videogame development underestimate just how long a road we still have to tread for videogames to be treated as a medium of expression commensurate with film, literature, and art.