{"id":15573,"date":"2011-09-22T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T09:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15573"},"modified":"2011-09-28T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T07:29:15","slug":"warco-the-news-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/warco-the-news-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Warco &#8211; the news game"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As someone who spends many hours in FPS games, I found the concept of an FPS game with no shooting &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/defiantdev.com\/warco\/\">Warco<\/a> &#8211; interesting and thought provoking. \u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2011\/09\/warco-an-fps-where-you-hold-a-camera-instead-of-a-gun.ars\">Ars Technica<\/a> puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Warco is a first-person game where players shoot footage instead of a gun. A work in progress at Brisbane-based studio Defiant Development, the game is a collaboration of sorts; Defiant is working with both a journalist and a filmmaker to create a game that puts you in the role of a journalist embedded in a warzone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The game is still in production and it is not clear whether it will ever come out. \u00a0There is a trailer which gives a feel to how it might be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQlkYY88wLM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/09\/22\/0748202\/An-FPS-Minus-the-Shooting\">Slashdot thread<\/a> already picked up the argument of whether you will be able to choose between Canon and Nikon equipment for the missions in the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (September 28, 2011)<\/strong>: Also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsy.com\/videos\/warco-new-video-game-swaps-gun-for-camera\/\">this Newsy video<\/a> that shares a few more opinions about the possible impact of the game. \u00a0That&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve heard the term &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/War_porn\">war porn<\/a>&#8216; for the first time.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>As someone who spends many hours in FPS games, I found the concept of an FPS game with no shooting &#8211; Warco &#8211; interesting and thought provoking. \u00a0As Ars Technica puts it: Warco is a first-person game where players shoot footage instead of a gun. A work in progress at Brisbane-based studio Defiant Development, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/22\/warco-the-news-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warco &#8211; the news game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[1336,1253,338,2803,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","tag-inspiration","tag-journalism","tag-military","tag-war","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28105,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/16\/ioquake3-free-software-fps-game-engine-based-on-quake-3-for-windows-linux-and-macos\/","url_meta":{"origin":15573,"position":0},"title":"ioquake3 &#8211; Free Software FPS Game Engine Based on Quake 3 for Windows, Linux, and macOS","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"ioquake3 is the modern, cross-platform distribution of the Quake 3 engine with a few extra bits and pieces.\u00a0 As per the GitHub repository: The intent of this project is to provide a baseline Quake 3 which may be used for further development and baseq3 fun. 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