The Best Amendment is a pay-what-you-like Mac/Win/Flash game that plays out NRA
president Wayne LaPierre’s infamous statement that “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
The first level is straightforward. You’re a little white cone-shaped fella, and you need to go get the star before the timer runs out. With each successive level, a new black-colored cone guy is added, and you have to shoot them to get more stars. Sometimes they shoot back at you, or even at each other.
The catch: Their behavior is totally determined by your actions in previous levels. If you hang out near a wall and spray a machine gun wildly, on the next level there will be a new bad guy who does the exact same thing, and you’ll have to shoot him with a bazooka or shotgun or whatever the game has armed you with.
The result is an exponential increase in violence from level to level. The game has no set limit on the number of levels, and eventually you’ll be overwhelmed and destroyed by the perpetually repeating actions of one of your past selves.
The game was created by Paolo Pedercini, who previously created “Unmanned” (a game about drone pilots) “Operation Pedopriest” (a satirical game about the Catholic Church); Free Culture; McDonald’s Video Game; and most notoriously, Phone Story, a game about mobile phone manufacture that was banned from the Ios App Store (you can still get it for Android).
Pedercini normally gives his games away, but he’s asking for pay-what-you-like donations this time to fund a workshop series called “Imagining Better Living Through Play,” an “initiative is meant to help activists and grassroots organizations make games for social change and personal empowerment.”
The Best Amendment Indie Game Takes On the NRA [Wired/Ryan Rigney]