Games You Can't Win
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.
2016-03-17 | 8 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
A New Kind of Wilderness
-
Food Matters
-
Diana: In Her Own Words
-
Good Girl
-
The Game Maker: Sunsoft Edition
-
The Last Shaman
-
Sticks & Stones
-
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
-
The Story of PlayStation
-
Voices at the End of the Line
-
Young At Heart
-
Somber
-
The Transformation
-
Playback
-
Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh
-
Listen to Her Heart: The Life and Music of Laurie Beechman
-
Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf
-
The Common Touch
-
Cuba's Cancer Hope
-
Casa Susanna