Warco July 2011

Developed as a partnership between Brisbane, Australia based Defiant Development, filmmaker Robert Connolly and journalist Tony Maniaty, Warco is a videogame that examines the frontline from a new direction.

In the role of war correspondent ('warco') Jesse DeMarco, the player must capture battle footage and edit together a news story, while trying to make it out alive.

All footage is taken from the proof of concept playable developed in UDK - all in game, barring the final news story which would be edited together by the player from the war footage they've captured.

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[Connectornz]

Article 79 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Convention says journalists will only be offered the rights of civilians - ie. not being taken prisoner - "provided that they take no action adversely affecting their status as civilians" - for example by carrying guns. Also, in a real world scenario, if journos were commonly seen to be carrying guns, even un-armed journos could eventually begin to be seen as combatants and be targeted which would endanger all of them, and the free flow of information

[DanyaelZ87]

I've covered wars, you know.

[MStowastiqPackapic]

I get bored with FPS but this might actually work for me.

[ilsamiri7]

PWN news? loool

[faloc]

hope they make one for the photographers xD it would be cool

[JalalAchkar911]

rlly nice game they should make some attention to it

[Roxasfan40]

if this was done with a larger budget and a bigger team (and if it was actually bieng releases) this would be the only modern "FPS" i'd ever buy

[DrPepper42yes]

@Nemspy Which is why I'd love to see it done with a large budget and a high-quality team for the technical side of development; unfortunately it's also the reason that will never happen.

[Thermalburn]

intresting concept. i wish a publisher had the balls to pick this game up and fund it properly; instead they choose to push out Call of Duty 27

[ElPandaDeLaAccion]

pwn news is my local news.

[ghaidu]

@MastermindX Ask José Couso.

[chankljp]

This game will have a lot potential if it address some of the grey areas that are involve in war journalism. For example: If you caught some soldiers on the side of the 'good guys' committing atrocities, do you report it? Knowing that it is just an isolated incident, but it will have a massive impact on their public support?

Or will you intervene in the things that you should just be observing? For example putting down the camera and help a wounded person.

Really looking forward to see it