The Australian creator of a Virginia Tech massacre computer game says he won't take the game off the internet or apologise, even if he receives a US$3000 ($3600) ransom.

Western Sydney resident Ryan Lambourn, 21, posted the bloody online game, called V-Tech Rampage, on website newgrounds.com and his own homepage, googumproduce.com.

He has since posted a message on the websites, saying he will remove the game from the internet if he receives donations of US$2000, and will apologise for US$3000.

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But Mr Lambourn told ninemsn that he had received no donations so far, and wouldn't be taking the game down anyway.

"(I have received) absolutely none. That's exactly why I put it there, because it would piss everyone off," he said.

V-Tech Rampage lets the player simulate the path taken by Cho Seung-hui the morning he killed 32 people at Virginia Tech.

Victims can be heard screaming as they flee the gun-toting character past key shooting landmarks such as Norris Hall and the campus's postal office.

Mr Lambourn said he created the game because making people angry was "funny".

"They could be angry about a lot of things, but they choose to get angry about this," he said.

"I've done really controversial things before that didn't become very popular. These things are done every day. This one just took off."

When asked how he would feel if he upset the relatives and friends of those killed in the massacre, he said he "didn't want to touch" the subject.

"There are people who have already replied saying I'm related to such and such victim. I don't know how many of those are really real," he said.

The game's message boards have been flooded with notes of outrage, but a surprising number of people also expressed admiration for the game.

"This isn't about free speech and censorship or the political backlash over games like this (sic) . . . These people are angry about the complete lack of respect you have shown for those who are grieving," said one.

But another wrote: "Dude! Super cool. I love it how people are crying all over this game."


http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=267689 ---- thats it


what do you think?

I think Cho Seung-hui was shooting the wrong people.

When I tried to go to this guys website it had already been suspended.

Fucking oath these retarted folks make us Aussies look like total and utter fuckwits..

Most of us aren't really like this.. Right guys? hehe

No seriously, this guy is so stupid, i saw it on tv tonight, and he said he wasn't sorry and thought it was funny. What the hell? this guy is crazy

Hey it IS a good game. Play it here if you want:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/378086

i think it would be kind of funny if he was fined thousands of dollars (instead of trying to make money on a 'ransom' of the game)... what kind of fuckwit creates a game about real life murders and then tries to hold it "ransom?" i hope that no one actually gives him money, it's so pathetic.

I agree that it's a lack of respect over those grieving and everything, but he does have a point. People make fun of tragic events all the time, everyone loves a good dead baby joke, they've just picked this particular one to get upset about.
However I do think it's extremely wrong for him to be trying to make money out of this, to find people's anger funny is one thing, but to benefit from someone else's grief is just sick.

Nothing to make a game about...

the game is boring

The game was on Newgroudns.com, and the author PiGPEN wants to make a profit off of it by taking it down.

agreed

They made numerous 9/11 games on Newgrounds, nobody bitched about those.

thats so sick... thats the most horrible thing i have heard, like... EVER... almost.. i think..
but seriously thats disgustingly... rrgh! it makes me mad.

Everyone's probably pissed about it, because he made it so soon after Virginia Tech. I don't know when those 9/11 ones were made, but maybe they weren't so close to when it happened. If he made it a few months from now no one would probably give a shit, it's just he was the first one (as far as we know) so he's getting all the backlash for it.

HMM not only this game is insane it is also pointless and boring.
i just tried it you can hardly do anything really and i think it nice to make fun og such things especially so short time after it happends. so i can conclude

A. its a boring game

B. why make a game about such an evil thing and then the game aint even good?

Yeah! If you are going to make a game about mass murder, at least make it exciting and with good CGI!

thats sick

That is messed up...

Using a thing that is a tragedy to exploit for money. I hope he gets what he has coming for this....

The game is pish.

Its not the fact that its a game, and I could care less, but I do know there are people who do care out there, and to use that to make a profit is messed up....

That's sad. And it's a boring game.

But on the other hand, they made video games about the World War I & World War II. And nobody complained about that.

He should have known he'd never make money off a boring game.

If you're going to try to make money from something so offensive, you should at least make it exciting.

i have'nt played it but it sounds very strange

That's disgusting. And horrible. He could've at least waited until people had recovered from it a bit..

But the war was a conflict between nations not a massacre of innocent people. Making a game like this is equivalent to making a game about the holocaust, it just horrible.

ye i agree but like Foobs said way back in the thread people made games about 911 on newgrounds why did'nt people mind about that?

northamericans always make movies, games, tv show, etc about tragedies and disasters... so what...

i cant believe anyone would create such a game. its completely disrespectful...

Graphics suck and its boring. Maybe the same guy who made the Columbine game created that shit.

wut a fricken dick!!

it was well made, i watched the intro but never play because of the subject matter.

This doesn't really surprise me at all. I mean people go out of their way to be offensive on the internet for lolz all the time. I'm thinking whateves. The US is giving him exactly what he wants by making such a stink about it.

I so KNEW this was going to be on Newgrounds.com

The site's administrators wouldn't want to take it off either because this kinda shit gives them publicity.

Yeah.. Publicity.. I would kick their ass..

I hate people.

what a jerk.
That's horrible, people shouldn't make a GAME out of it.

If someone would do smth like that in my county, they would probably shot him on the street..

But really, that just makes me sick to my stomach.

If you go to this page on Newgrounds you can see all the really fucked up games people have made, such as the 9/11 games Foobs was mentioning.

http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/bastards.html

how extremely innappropriate and sick.

No thx, go ahead. I hate violence.

That's ridicoulous!

Basically what Ami said. I don't particularly think it's AWFUL to make a game about this, but to exploit people like this is gashcore.

That's sick.
I don't really agree with War games either.
Turning terrible things into some form of entertainment is wrong.

This game isnt entertainment tho, lol

I played it on newgrounds it is boring!

The guy is stupid if you ask me, making a game for his amusement about something like that is just heartless.

But still noone ban that page.. I wonder why..

THAT IS JUST FREAKING STUPID!!!!!!!!

MY FRIENDS COUSIN WENT THERE

some kid did the same thing with the Columbine shootings.

This is one of the reasons that Australia sucks.

this guy is sick.