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.
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.
- Year : 2016
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : Chicken & Egg Films
- Keyword : depression, cancer, child cancer, transgender, video games
- Director : Malika Zouhali-Worrall, David Osit
- Cast : Ryan Green, Amy Green, Matt Gilgenbach, Anna Anthropy