Slamdance Festival Loses More Entrants

In yet more displays of solidarity with the creator of Super Columbine Massacre RPG, additional Slamdance finalists have withdrawn. The incredibly creative Toblo, as well as the titles Once Upon a Time and Everyday Shooter have taken themselves out of consideration in protest of the Columbine game's removal from the competition. Only eight of the original 14 finalists are still in the competition, with several of those having gotten together to write a letter of protest to the contest's organizers. Danny Leddonne, creator of the Columbine title, has spoken with Ars Technica and Next Gen in recent days, and touches on both his controversial title and the hoopla that now surrounds it. Update: 01/10 20:21 GMT by Z : It doesn't end. Slamdance has now lost a sponsor over this.

Shouldn't be pulling out...

[__aaclcg7560]

The smart thing to do is enter even more controversial titles. I'm sure Swinging Dictators of The Gallows would be a smashing hit. :P

great

[nomadic]

Now how are we going to officially recognize games with lousy graphics and heavyhanded political and social commentary?

Re:Shouldn't be pulling out...

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like a WWII-based game. Only instead of fighting in the war, you run a concentration camp. It should be similar to The Sims.

Equivocating?

[HTH NE1]

From the ars technica interview [arstechnica.com]:

Mr. Baxter issued statements months ago equivocating videogames to films in terms of importance and artistic potential.

I think that was meant to be "equating" not "equivocating".

An astute editor should have corrected it if it was not what was said, replaced it using square brackets to denote a substitution, or otherwise noted the error. As it stands, it isn't clear whether it is the interviewer's error or the interviewee trying to importantalize his statementarisms by inflaterizing his syllabilical count.