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StarvingEyes Advergaming has a new viral game that will definitely be men-tioned on the path toward Election 2012. Entitled “Tea Party Zombies Must Die,” players are put into a zombie apocalypse where they must shoot their way through large numbers of zombies having the faces of real-life Tea Party political figures, supporters and FOX News commentators. Many note that while the video game may add to the level of public amusement, it does little to help public discourse. Source for this article: Kill conservatives in Tea Party Zombies Must Die video game

Fox News could be murdered
It is a given that all zombies must be put down with extreme prejudice - a popular sentiment that began with the films of George Romero and made its way into video games with such popular franchises as “Resident Evil,” “House of the Dead” and “Left 4 Deceased.” Still, when the characters being murdered are Michele Bachmann, Palin, Gingrich, O'Reilly and Glenn Beck and the setting is the Fox News studio, people tend to get just a little mad. Republicans are being attacked quite a bit with this game. It is not just about enjoying a good time.

Calling it free speech
As reported by the National Review, “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” is just too much. A line was certainly crossed. The concern of the project is something CEO of StarvingEyes Jason Oda does not understand. He claims it was just a “personal project” he was working on.

"I am not worried about it affecting business," Oda said.

Usually more objectionable expression is not really allowed in the free industry place, as pointed out by the Huffington Post. Quoting a speech by President Obama:

“At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized (and) we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who happen to think dif-ferently than we do, it’s important... (to make sure we are speaking) with each other in a way that heals, (rather than) wounds.”

What is appropriate with video games
The concern about video games is brought up with the “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” game. Games need to focus on making life better in the real world whenever possible according to Dr. Jane McGonigal, who is Director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and author of “Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and how They Can Change the World,” although several argue it is just mindless entertainment. While that may be too lofty a goal for StarvingEyes' zombie massacre, per-haps the game might have taken the tactic of illustrating how the world might really improve without the above-named "Tea Party zombies.” Portraying death in a video game is very simple and simply. Still, change is more difficult to get put together.

Tea Party Zombies footage (Note: Video game gore, political stereo-types)

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Articles cited
Huffington Post: http://huff.to/rmBYUDNational Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/27 ... -fosterTea Party Zombies Must Die: http://teapartyzombiesmustdie.com/

[froggyboy604]

The game sort of reminds me of Resident Evil mixed with Conservatives Zombies.

[Skeithex]

this will be a big thing.

[froggyboy604]

Indeed, unless the Tea Party who has members like Sarah Palin, and other conservatives sue for copyright of the name "Tea Party", or just protest a lot to stop the game.

I think this game will be big as well.

[Skeithex]

Indeed, unless the Tea Party who has members like Sarah Palin, and other conservatives sue for copyright of the name "Tea Party", or just protest a lot to stop the game.

I think this game will be big as well.

couldn't they be sued for using the name "tea party" as well? since that was used in the time of revolution.

[froggyboy604]

I feel the "current tea party" should not really use the name "tea party" as their party name since they don't seem very deserving of using the name of the original Tea Party during the Revolution which dumped Tea in to Boston harbor to protest the British.

I think the name "Tea Party" is public domain, so it can't belong to anyone, but I feel the current Tea Part might want to copyright the name for their own use.

[Skeithex]

when I first herd tea party I was confused to what it stood for.