Local video game involves a killing spree in Port Moody high school

With all the sensitivity surrounding the Newtown and Columbine school shootings in the States, you might wonder why someone would create a video game that involves a killing spree at a high school, and a local one at that.

Aarman Rahim is a former chapter President of Amnesty International at Port Moody Secondary. He’s developed a first person shooter game, where you can choose your weapons, and go on a killing spree at his former school. A video sequence posted on Facebook does not appear to depict students being killed, but posts on online forums had the developer promise that students and teachers would be featured and could be hero, enemy or collateral damage.

“When I first saw the game yesterday I was pretty shocked and a bit disappointed that someone would take that sort of time out of their life to make a game based in our community that had only one goal, and that was to murder as many people as possible in a high school,” said Dave Teixeira, Dave.ca blogger.

“So, kind of a disgusting premise, and then to find out again that the person who created it had such great social capital and just had this big disconnect between what he was doing in the real world and what the world he’s creating online was going to be. To me it was shock and disappointment in the whole thing.”