Active Shooter Video Game

The active shooter video game, on the surface, can be seen as glorification of role playing the gunman. As a person who plays a lot of video games and actually played the Alpha release of the game, this is not actually what the game is about. The game does not glorify school shootings, rather it shows how school shooting may come to light from how students mistreat each other. I think that media has a big role on the understanding of reporting information that is not entirely accurate. The game was supposed to bring light on bullying and kids that are represented as outcasts. The main stream media targeted the game as though it is all about shooting up a school. This is not the case and is trying to show how children manifest their feelings in the real world into action. Some kids stand up for themselves and have fist fights, while others plot to harm others in more sinister ways. The problem is not the game, rather that media has misrepresented what the game actually is about, taking small parts of the game out of context. This happens in all forms of "news" and other media that is not accurate.

I think steam was right to cancel the game as it was coming at a time that was hard and still is for a lot of people. Steam wanted to get rid of the bad press which was mostly focused on incorrect information about the game. I do believe the game in its entirety compared to the narrative of media, is a lot less harmful than most video games on the market prior to the active shooter game and after. It would have caused Valve, the creators of steam, to spend a lot more resources on something that is not in the best interest of the public. The public was misinformed on what the game was actually about and vilified it, taking it out of context and presenting that to the public which has become a norm in today's society.