Checkerboarded Studios is testing the boundaries of good taste and free speech with a new game modification for Half-Life 2 where the goal is partake in a school shooting called [URL=http://www.moddb.com/mods/school-shooter-north-american-tour-2012]School Shooter: North American Tour 2012[/URL] (thanks Andrew Eisen). The Escapist caught up with mod maker known only as "Pawnstick," who attempted to explain the motivation of creating such a mod.

The gist of his comments on the game are not about how shocking, horrible, or in bad taste a mod such as his is, but about how there haven't been any exciting games representing school shootings. He calls Super Columbine Massacre "****ing boring." His inspiration for the mod came from Bully: Source, which he calls says try to "educate the player" and are "almost always ****ing garbage."

Here is what he had to say about media coverage of Columbine:

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