California developer made video game about shooting gay people 'to prove a point'

California developer made video game about shooting gay people 'to prove a point'
California developer made video game about shooting gay people 'to prove a point'
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A California developer on Monday launched a video game called “Kill The Faggot”, which shoots gay and transgender people, but was pulled down hours later after much outrage.In the game, launched by the “Greenlight” initiative , players lose points for shooting at straight people, and score by killing people from the LGBT community- extra points for killing a transgender. In the background one can hear the announcer exclaim “AIDS carrier eliminated”.The Greenlight page and their parent game shop Steam received many complaints from their customers asking them to have a more rigourous monitoring service so that games like these that violate their terms of service are not allowed.Before the game was pulled down, it was downloaded by game critic Jim Sterling. In a video on YouTube he explains the game and asks some pertinent questions like “Is this a satire?” and “What is it satirizing?”Website Ars Technica has quoted Herman as saying, “These people that think if you are even remotely homophobic, you are 'hateful' and a 'bigot,' and do everything they can to destroy you in every vicious way possible. So I decided to go down a path that most developers are afraid to go down: to piss these people off by making the most overly offensive game possible to these idiots to prove a point." Video of W-p7mOl1xDE

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