{"id":26784,"date":"2015-03-14T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-war-game-that-helps-child-survivors-of-war\/"},"modified":"2015-03-14T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-14T17:13:25","slug":"a-war-game-that-helps-child-survivors-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-war-game-that-helps-child-survivors-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A war game that helps child survivors of\u00a0war"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rather than focusing on the heavily armed soldiers who populate most war games, This War of Mine<\/i> made headlines last year by simulating the experiences of a very different group of people: civilian survivors.<\/p>\n

Now its developer 11 Bit Studios is going a step further, with new downloadable content<\/a> whose proceeds will benefit the international charity War Child<\/a>,
\n which provides support to children impacted by wars and violent
\nconflicts. The DLC integrates street art by several international
\nartists into the game, images that offer \u201creflections on the human
\ncondition and the state of humanity during a time of war.\u201d <\/p>\n

Although This War of Mine<\/i> is based partly on the Siege
\nof Sarajevo, the harrowing scenarios and difficult moral choices it
\npresents are intended to depict the experience of survivors of war
\nacross the globe rather than any specific country or conflict.<\/p>\n

“When war breaks out, what matters is what kind of human you are, and how you survive,” senior writer Pawel Miechowski told Gamasutra<\/a>. \u201cI presented this game to people from both Palestine and Israel, and for both sides, it was a game about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

You play as multiple survivors in a ramshackle house, hiding from
\nsnipers and trying to scrounge up enough food and resources to survive.
\nAt night, you creep out into the larger, fictional city of Pogoren,
\nwhere you can loot empty houses or steal from other survivors\u2014by force,
\nif you choose. It can be a startling and often upsetting experience,
\nespecially when you are thrust into the game with no tutorial and no
\noption to restore your game if things go awry, or even start more than
\none game at the same time.<\/p>\n

“In reality you cannot live two lives at once,” art director Przemek Marszal explained<\/a>. \u201cIn This War of Mine<\/i>
\n there is no tutorial, because when war breaks out, there is no tutorial
\n of people telling you what do to survive and save your family. You\u2019re
\njust on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest\u2026<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m withholding judgement until I\u2019ve had a chance to read and play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

mostlysignssomeportents: Rather than focusing on the heavily armed soldiers who populate most war games, This War of Mine made headlines last year by simulating the experiences of a very different group of people: civilian survivors. Now its developer 11 Bit Studios is going a step further, with new downloadable content whose proceeds will benefit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Y0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}