Water Cooler Games served as the web's primary forum for "videogames with an agenda" — coverage of the uses of video games in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment.
The site was maintained at watercoolergames.org from 2003-2009, where it was edited by myself and Gonzalo Frasca. It is now archived here in full.
While I was in Montreal at MIGS last week, the IGDA hosted a special screening of Danny Ledonne's documentary Playing Columbine, which tells the story of Super Columbine Massacre RPG!'s creation and subsequent controversy, including the now infamous pulling of the game from the Slamdance Guerilla Gamemaker competition.
The version I saw wasn't the final cut, and while I think a number of changes could improve the final version, the film is very good (disclaimer: I make more than one appearance in the film).
So when will you, our loyal readers, get to see it? Well, not at Slamdance 2008, that's for sure. Danny let us know that he received a stock rejection letter today from the festival, which reminded him that "our film program is based on the subjective decisions of our programming committees." It's certainly no surprise that those "subjective decisions" would include the rejection of the film, which is openly critical of the festival. Surprise though it may not be, now we know for sure.
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