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Official website for the game, including artist's statement, discussion board, trailer, and links to press coverage.
www.columbinegame.com
Overview of controversy and media discourse surrounding the game, and their positive effects. [Gamasutra]
www.gamasutra.com
Wikipedia: Super Columbine Massacre RPG
Encyclopedia article on the game.
en.wikipedia.org
Hour-long condensed video of gameplay from start to finish, including all hidden cut scenes, but with abbreviated combat.
video.google.com
Columbine Survivor Talks About Columbine RPG
Interview with Richard Castaldo, paralyzed victim of the Columbine shooting, about his reactions upon downloading and playing the game. [Kotaku]
www.kotaku.com
Balanced article including interviews with victims' families, survivors, and game's creator. [Rocky Mountain News]
blogs.rockymountainnews.com
Q&A: Creator of Super Columbine Massacre RPG
Interview with the game's author about why and how he wrote it, the game's purpose, reactions to it, and whether any subjects are taboo for games. [Rocky Mountain News]
blogs.rockymountainnews.com
Columbine, Videogames as Expression, and Ineffability
Essay on this game and the conflict between artistic expression and a culture that would rather not talk about anything uncomfortable. [Water Cooler Games]
www.watercoolergames.org
A Sick Video Game About Columbine
Brent Bozell attacks the game's author as a "deeply disturbed jerk", "a warped individual", and a "pompous hypocrite and a coward". [Parents Television Council]
www.parentstv.org
"If we can't have the guts as artists to stand up and make a controversial statement with our medium, we don't deserve to have it."
kingludic.blogspot.com
Column about the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker Competition's president removing the game from the finals, and nearly half of the other finalists withdrawing in protest. By Mike Musgrove. [Washington Post]
www.washingtonpost.com
"This is not a glamorization of the murderers, nor yet a trivialization of the tragedy; it is a work of serious artistic intent and accomplishment, based on considerable research, that in fact illuminates and reflects the horror of that day."
www.manifestogames.com
Columbine Game Kicked From Competition
Slamdance president Peter Baxter pulled the game from finals of the Slamdance Guerilla Games Competition, reportedly due to outside pressure. [Kotaku]
www.kotaku.com
Slamdance: Columbine Pulled on Moral Grounds
"Festival president Peter Baxter says that he made the decision free of any outside pressure based on moral grounds and concern for the future of the organization." [Kotaku]
www.kotaku.com