Warco
''Warco: The News Game'' was an unreleased first-person videogame created by now defunct Australian game studio Defiant Development in collaboration with ManiatyMedia and Arenamedia. The game is made to train journalists to work in war environments. In the game, players control a journalist filming and travelling through war zones. Development Australian journalist Tony Maniaty first conceived the idea for the game while watching his two sons playing the first-person shooter game ''Far Cry 2''. Maniaty had previously done reporting in post-Soviet states and covered the murders of the Balibo Five in East Timor. He envisioned creating a videogame that would train journalists to work in war-torn regions. Maniaty brought his idea to Robert Connolly, a film-maker who had directed ''Balibo (film), Balibo'', a 2009 movie that tells the story of the five Australian journalists who were killed in the small town of Balibo in East Timor. With funding from Screen Australia and Screen NSW ...
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''Warco: The News Game'' was an unreleased first-person videogame created by now defunct Australian game studio Defiant Development in collaboration with ManiatyMedia and Arenamedia. The game is made to train journalists to work in war environments. In the game, players control a journalist filming and travelling through war zones. Development Australian journalist Tony Maniaty first conceived the idea for the game while watching his two sons playing the first-person shooter game ''Far Cry 2''. Maniaty had previously done reporting in post-Soviet states and covered the murders of the Balibo Five in East Timor. He envisioned creating a videogame that would train journalists to work in war-torn regions. Maniaty brought his idea to Robert Connolly, a film-maker who had directed ''Balibo (film), Balibo'', a 2009 movie that tells the story of the five Australian journalists who were killed in the small town of Balibo in East Timor. With funding from Screen Australia and Screen NSW ...
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