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: David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall
- Cast: Ryan Green, Amy Green, Matt Gilgenbach, Anna Anthropy