This War of Mine, the moving mix of war and harsh reality is jumping from the Pc monitor to the New York Museum of Modern Art.
MoMA plays host to a very different type of exhibition today. Instead of cutting edge canvases or contemporary culture, theEast Coast American art scene is showing off a video game. This War of Mine is just one of 11 Bit Studios’ many emotional titles. Weaving a profound narrative with the reality of war, This War of Mine doesn’t plunge players into the front line as a soldier. This title explores the lives of survivors in a besieged city in something of a twist to tradition. Instead of attacking enmeis, it navigates difficult decisions, dangerous daily tasks, and the lives of people just trying to get by among besieged buildings.
Now art aficionados can attend an in person exploration of this piece at MoMA until 16 July, 2023. It arrives as part of the wider Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design exhibition, but will probably resurface in another form. The evocative video game was acquired by MoMA in 2012 along with 35 other video games as part of the Museum’s permanent collection. This allows the Museum to study, preserve, and exhibit video games as part of its Architecture and Design collection.
“There is often a kind of a conversation about games as fun, games as a diversion, but I think that there’s an increasing range of games that ask more of the players. When I played This War of Mine it made me sad, it made me afraid, it made me very tense, and in the end, it left me with a very changed understanding of what it is to be playing in a war space,” describes
Paul Galloway, Collection Specialist at MoMA.
If you’re local then check out the gallery website to plan a very different sort of play through. For the rest of us, This War of Mine sits alongside games like Memories Retold, Gerda: A Flame in Winter, and others in ditching the machine gun for a different view of conflict. Find out more on the official website or grab the game on PC, PlayStation and Xbox now..
