Russian developer defends controversial 'Active Shooter' video game

Acid Software, the developer of the school shooting video game is defending the product and vowing to continue selling it online as parents of slain children and other mass shooting victims work to get the game wiped off the internet. The developer for a video game that stimulates a school shooting has found new ways to sell his game after an online gaming platform removed it, following huge backlash from the parents of children killed in school shootings. "Active Shooter" was removed from the platform Steam after anti-gun activists and the parents of students killed during school shootings criticized the game for allowing players to simulate school shootings by playing the role of the shooter. Ryan Petty, the father of Alaina Petty who was killed in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, slammed the game, calling it "despicable," and said it was "unacceptable" that Steam allowed games like this to be shared. Anton Makarevskiy, the game's developer, defended it through his entity, Acid Software, citing free expression rights.