Games You Can't Win
2016
8 min
English
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.
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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Chicken & Egg Films
Keywords
Top Cast
Ryan Green as Self
Amy Green as Self
Matt Gilgenbach as Self
Anna Anthropy as Self
Top Crew
Malika Zouhali-Worrall · Director
David Osit · Director
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