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I totally agree about the jackpot element - if they're looking to reach a wider audience, why restrict it to people who get the top score? Weird indeed. I feel kind of bad that my first dtoid "tip" involved a brutal murder but, y'know, I'll take my props wherever I can get 'em.....
I can appreciate what they are trying to do, but it's a bad idea. Keep their faces plastered all over the media, and they will be remembered. Stay away from ma' games!
If you get the super special jackpot (1 in sixty billion chance), it tells you his current location.
Sad AND nonsensical.
Also, is that a picture of the girl that was killed? If so, bad taste Colette.
Thanks for bringing attention to such a weird piece of news, Colette. Reality's so much weirder than fiction. It sounds like a cliche, but it's true. If someone wrote a story about this criminal videogame concept, it would seem so contrived. Real life is just so crazy that it almost escapes fiction's abilities to comprehend and make sense of. And I'll stop pontificating in 3, 2, 1 ...
@Tristero -- I can;t take credit -- it was all Touchscreen gamer! Still, it's definitely worth thinking about...
This is really weird... a good idea being executed a bit poorly in my opinion.
Where's Rorschach when you need him? :(
Let gwap develop it. A game where players compete to name-the-criminal would be more effective. A new piece of information (crime, sex, age, sentence, region, etc.) could be uncovered as time elapsed. The first player to name-the-criminal wins points dependent on how many hints he had.
When you think about this, it might be a good idea to try and keep these cases in the public eye this way.
I remember a case where a British hostess got murdered, and the family was frustrated because the Japanese police weren't really bothered about finding a hostess, alive or not. It didn't take much to track her last movements and find her alledged killer (whilst the guy was found not guilty, the killer was found guilty of another murder and several rapes). The problem was that she disappeared in a way that suggested that she was in trouble, and time was wasted. Trust me, I think it is less poor taste than it sounds, as least in Japan with that kind of policing attitude.
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