Super Columbine Massacre RPG!

Super Columbine Massacre RPG!
The title card of Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, featuring security camera footage of Harris and Klebold in the Columbine school cafeteria[1]
Designer(s)	Danny Ledonne
Writer(s)	Danny Ledonne
Engine	RPG Maker 2000
Platform(s)	Windows
Release	April 20, 2005
Genre(s)	Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Part of a series of articles on the
Columbine High School massacre
Location: Columbine High School (Columbine, Colorado) Perpetrators: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
Victims Cassie Bernall Austin Eubanks Rachel Scott
Weaponry Intratec TEC-9 Mini Hi-Point 995 carbine Savage 67H pump-action shotgun Stevens 311D double barreled sawed-off shotgun
Related persons Dave Cullen Sue Klebold Danny Ledonne Sol Pais Bill White
Media A Mother's Reckoning (2016) April Showers (2009) Bowling for Columbine (2002) Columbine (2009) No Easy Answers (2002) columbinus (2005) Dawn Anna (2005) Duck! The Carbine High Massacre (1999) Elephant (2003) Home Room (2002) I'm Not Ashamed (2016) "Lullaby for Columbine" Nobody Left to Hate (2001) Pico's School (1999) Playing Columbine (2008) Rachel's Tears (2000) She Said Yes (1999) Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (2005) The Library (2014) "The Nobodies" The Only Way (2004) "The Way I Am" "Youth of the Nation" Zero Day (2003) Zero Hour (2004)
Cultural impact and aftermath Columbine copycats Columbine effect Columbine Memorial Immediate action rapid deployment Mass shooting contagion Rachel's Challenge
Entertainment affected Diablo II (2000) "Earshot" "Graduation Day" Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Controversies Doom Marilyn Manson Natural Born Killers copycat crimes
Related topics Adios (1999) Blackjack Pizza KMFDM Natural Born Killers (1994)
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Super Columbine Massacre RPG! is a role-playing video game created by Danny Ledonne and released in April 2005. The game recreates the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Columbine, Colorado. Players assume the roles of gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and act out the massacre, with flashbacks relating parts of Harris and Klebold's past experiences. The game begins on the day of the shootings and follows Harris and Klebold after their suicides to fictional adventures in perdition.

Ledonne had spent many years conceptualizing games, but never created one due to his lack of game design and programming knowledge. He was inspired to create a video game about Columbine by his own experience being bullied and the effect the shooting had on his life. The game represents a critique of how traditional media sensationalized the shooting, as well as parodying video games themselves. Super Columbine Massacre was created with ASCII's game development program RPG Maker 2000 and took approximately six months to complete. Ledonne initially published the game anonymously, releasing an artist's statement about the work after his identity was revealed. Super Columbine Massacre was released for free online and attracted little attention until 2006, when widespread media coverage fueled hundreds of thousands of downloads.

Reaction to Super Columbine Massacre was negative; the title was criticized as trivializing the actions of Harris and Klebold and the lives of the innocent. The game's cartoon presentation and the side-plot into hell were considered by critics as obscuring the game's message, but it received minor note as a game that transcended the stereotypical associations of the medium as entertainment for children. Super Columbine Massacre's themes and content led to it being included in discussions as to whether video games cause violence; the title was later listed as one of the possible motivating factors of the shooter after the 2006 Dawson College shooting. The game has been described as an art game,^[2] and Ledonne has become a spokesperson for video games as an art form, producing a documentary in 2008 called Playing Columbine about his game and its impact.