Creator of ‘Main Street Massacre’ defends game
Posted August 14, 2014 7:28 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The creator of a bloody online game about SkyTrain delays is now defending his work.
‘Main Street Massacre,’ which lets you vent frustrations by playing a gunman shooting and killing fellow passengers on the platform, has been raising eyebrows around Metro Vancouver.
Colin Palmer came up with the game, saying he was “compelled to” given the anger and frustration from co-workers and others after two major service disruptions last month.
But he tells CTV News that the game does not promote violence. “It’s completely an invalid argument to say that one video game done with sort of ‘cartoony’ violence is going to be the sole cause of something like that.”
However, he says the game certainly seems to have hit a nerve.
Transit Police says it is aware of the game and it’s in the process of reviewing it to determine if any “police-related issues come to light.”
TransLink says the game isn’t in the “public interest.”
