Shortly after authorities apprehended a man suspected of attempting a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, reports revealed that the would-be assailant was identified as a game developer. 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, the man accused of rushing the media event attended by President Donald Trump, uploaded a game called Bohrdom to Steam in 2018.
On Steam, Bohrdom was described as a chemistry game where players controlled electrons or nuclei in a “non-violent asymmetrical fighting game.” Most of the game’s marketing read like a technical jumble that made it difficult to understand what the experience actually was. For example, Allen wrote that Bohrdom featured an “elastic collision physics engine, including custom collision detection functions and the capability to accurately resolve rotational components of collisions.”
