Escape From Woomera

“It’s a dose of virtual reality that the Immigration Minister could probably do without: a computer game in which players try to escape from Australian detention centres has received $25,000 in federal funding.” - smh.com.au

Australia’s Federal Government is paying to create a game that takes a very ironic swipe at its highly controversial immigration policy. Unfortunately, the game makers themselves are purely politically motivated, so don’t expect much from it.

posted by monty · at 1:32 pm · filed under News

 

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 sincerity_snail 5 years, 7 months ago

Actually quite a few of those involved in the project are experienced game developers, so hopefully it will have both politics AND gameplay!!

I don’t think it’s necessarily unfortunate that a game may be politically motivated. Political movies have been around for decades, surely games are an worthy platform for such expression? (pardon the pun)

In any case, the screenshot looks uniquely Australian…

http://www.theage.com.au/ar…

Yeah, some in the local industry thought it was time to exercise their collective muscle and try something a little different. Maybe they’re bored from years spent making games for the EB bargain bin or something…

Check out the website that’s just gone up (the server appears to be flakey at the moment tho)

How about the new travel game Iraq2Woomera,

Hey Kipper that link didn’t work…bugger

I would like to contact a, someone developing the game as an Official Womera beta tester….. ( yeah from woomera) PLZ help

I’m writing an article on ‘videogames as an artform’ for SMH’s icon supplement. Can anyone put me in touch with local wriers of ‘arty’ games? (I do realise that any good game is artistic)

When you say "Arty" games.. What do you mean? "High Concept", "Controversial" or "Low Budget, made at home title that will never be published"?

.Shane

Games that are clearly made with the purpose of expressing something (eg; an idea, feeling, politic) and convey this through their artistic elements. Could be a commercial release like REZ, could be an independently made game patch… Escape F W is a good example!

fnarky,

checkout

http://selectparks.net

many many game art links in there and my

http://www.members.optusnet…

I’m sure that you will find something there.

EFW link is

http://escapefromwoomera.org

It still needs to be updated quite a lot.

how do u get this game

download? if so what site

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