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20168 minPGdoc-short

Games You Can't Win

20168 minPGdoc-short

Empathy gaming emerges as a movement where developers share personal traumas through documentary-style video games, featuring stories from three creators.

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Malika Zouhali-Worrall,

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Empathy gaming emerges as a movement where developers share personal traumas through documentary-style video games, featuring stories from three creators.

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Malika Zouhali-Worrall

Malika Zouhali-Worralldirector

David Ositdirector

Ryan Green

Matt Gilgenbachcast

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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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