Games You Can't Win
- Movies
- 2016-03-17
- EN
- Released
- 0h 8m
- US
- Documentary
Production
Chicken & Egg Films
Tagline
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.
Storyline
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.
