First Person Victim - Video game uses interactive drama and tragedy to create awareness about the consequences of war

Description

First Person Victim, featured as part of GAMBIT Game Lab's vaunted video podcast series, is Schønau Fog’s look at the darker side of war largely ignored by military-inspired first-person shooters such as Call of Duty — namely the world of trapped civilians. Players of First Person Victim experience a military airstrike through the eyes of their unarmed characters.

[...] This video of GAMBIT's March 31st, 2011 research meeting will feature our friend Henrik Schønau Fog, PhD Fellow in Mediology who will present his game "First Person Victim", a project that he developed with a team of other researchers from Aalborg University, which situates the player in the middle of a war scenario as a civilian. It's a fascinating project, so don't miss it!

Video podcast link: http://gambit.mit.edu/updates/2011/04/gambit_research_video_podcast_6.php