Author of Virginia Tech Shooting Game Refuses to take it Offline

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Yeah, a real smart way to try to make money :paranoid:

The author of a homemade game based on the Virginia Tech shootings is offering to pull it off the Internet only if he receives donations on his Web site.

21-year-old Ryan Lambourn of Sydney, Australia, posted a game called "V-Tech Rampage" on newgrounds.com. That's a Philadelphia-based portal that allows amateurs to upload games they have created, play them and discuss them in forums.

In Lambourn's game, the player manipulates a character carrying a handgun around a campus and makes clear references to the Virginia Tech killings and gunman Seung-Hui Cho, the student who shot to death 32 people and himself on April 16th.

The game has generated a furious debate online, with many posters in numerous forums and newsgroups demanding that it be removed. Others have supported the game.

Local media report that Lambourn has received no donations.

Phone and e-mail messages left for Lambourn by The Associated Press have not been answered.

http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=6524157
 
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If I was to be a relative of my victim of virginia tech killing, I'd find the address of the author and take care of him in good hands, if i had choices at any cost.....
 
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LOL my site is down because they got too many angry emails and they wont put it back up with vtech still on it. Atleast Newgrounds still believes in freedom of speech, thanks.


heres what dude said on there, this fool aint got no respect
 
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heres what a V-Tech student said about the game on the comments board



would just like to say this, as a student at Tech who was there that day.

You are the self righteous prick. All you did was make a game with enough shock value that you got your 10 minutes of fame. Its really easy to joke about something that you weren't involved in, but let me tell you that there is nothing funny in what happened that day.

You said you made this game as a joke to laugh at it, but what the F**k was so funny. Seriously because I remember that morning. I woke up and was informed that someone was shot 3 floors below me, it wasn't funny when I was trying to figure out if any of my friends from the 4th floor had been shot. It wasn't funny being locked down in my room while I watched on CNN as they carried bodies out of Norris (knowing that I had been in class in the building across from it when the shootings started). And definitely wasn't F**king funny when I found out that I knew 3 of the people who were killed.

And please don't hide behind freedom of speech, freedom of speech protects a persons personal opinion. This is not an opinion this is your attempt at a cash cow you worthless prick. You actually want money from Tech for this to come down. What happened that day wasn't a game it was real life (you know the thing outside your safe little house and your virtual computer world), people are still trying to recover and you want money.

I hear the arguement if you don't agree don't play it, but the very fact you made it is an insult to the memory of everyone effected by that. And you tried to make a comical game out of it. You aren't helping freedom of speech or the gaming community. All your doing is encouraging other people that this OK to go shoot a school, because look its just a joke on the internet.

Honestly take a look at yourself, you have impressed like 12 people and angered everyone else. If it sounds like I'm pissed, I am. I was there and I lived through it and now I flip on newgrounds or go to msn and have to watch you get your 10 minutes of fame joking about the horror that my school had to and is still living through

Congradulations on being worthless, tasteless and heartless.
 
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