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Escape from Woomera (0 comments)
Play Game >> Age Range Ages 7 and up Brief Description
If you thought escaping from Castle Wolfenstein was hard, try Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre... With a first person, 3D adventure game we invite gamers to assume the character of, and 'live' through the experiences of a modern day refugee. The effective media lock-out from immigration detention centres has meant that the whole truth about what goes on behind the razor-wire at Woomera, Baxter, Port Hedland, Maribyrnong and Villawood remains largely a mystery to the Australian public. We want to challenge this by offering the world a glimpse - more than that even: an interactive, immersive experience - of life within the most secretive and controversial places on the Australian political and geographical landscape. In this way, Escape From Woomera will be an engine for mobilising experiences and situations otherwise inaccessible to an nation of disempowered onlookers. It will provide both a portal and a toolkit for reworking and engaging with what is otherwise an entirely mediated current affair.
Developer Katharine Neil (aka 'Kipper'), Creative Director, Matthew Jones (aka 'Matt Harrigan'), Programmer
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Woomera, the most publicised of the Australian detention camps, was closed down in April 2003. But Port Hedland , Maribyrnong, Villawood (known to detainees as “the Villawood Ritz”) and Baxter remain. Baxter was built to resist escape with its high—tech surveillance systems and electrified fences, and noone has yet staged a successful breakout…
Non-Profit involved: no
Social Issues/Channels Human Rights
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