Games You Can't Win (2016-03-17)
A​ transgender woman, a sufferer of severe mental illness​, and the parents of a child with cancer transform their experiences into intensely personal video games.
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Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most intimate or traumatic personal experiences through artful, documentary-style video games. Using a combination of intimate verité footage and video capture from the games, the short film tells the stories of three developer and the personal experiences that inspired their game.
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Status: Released
Release Date: 2016-03-17
Runtime: 0h 8m
Director: Malika Zouhali-Worrall, David Osit
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Ryan Green
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Amy Green
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Matt Gilgenbach
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Anna Anthropy
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