(Berlin, 12.10.2010) The first shock was enormous: In Trailer is presented a new video game - a first person shooter. It is the year 1976. The player takes on the role of a border police from the former East Germany, his imaginary goal is a refugee Republic, it is the title of German-German Border. The online role-playing game called " 1378 (km) " - the distance value corresponds to the length of the former inner-German border. The game is a thesis of 23-year media arts student from Karlsruhe Jens M. Stober at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. Ironically, on 3 October this year, in the 20th Anniversary of German Unity, should the game be published online - as a free download.
It broke out a wave of indignation. Image Online called the game distasteful, Axel Klaus Meier, by the Berlin Wall Memorial tasteless. On victims and their families not be taken into consideration. Hubertus Knabe, director of Berlin's Stasi memorial Hohenschönhausen refunded, no complaint for the glorification of violence at the Berlin prosecutor's office.
was for the Association of German video-and computer players dominated the discussion, however, "the usual prejudices against first-person shooter. "It will be unpacked, the best slogans, without the program could ever take a close look," noted the chairman Patrick Schoenfeldt made on the homepage of the association. The Karlsruhe School of Design as well as the supervisor of graduate students, media artist Michael Bielicky Heiner and Sears, a lecturer in philosophy and cultural theory, still behind the project of her protégé. They released at 7.10. a statement on the website of the university in which they express themselves critical of "self-appointed representatives of the victims of the former German Democratic Republic" and "sensationalist mass media." They also denounced the hasty condemnation of the game.
On the official website of " 1378 (km) " is the inventor Jens M. Stober now reserved: A beta version of the game with an age rating of 18 should soon come to revise the game based on the feedback. As part of a discussion meeting at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe in December should be the final version to be published.
Photo: Jens M. Stober, www.1378km.de
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