"You are the storyteller in This War of Mine because this is your story. "This is a tool to experience war from the perspective of civilians," Miechowski tells me. They had what I needed and I had nothing to trade for it what else was I supposed to do? I kill two men who are simply guarding what they've scavenged for. I need medicine, so I send Pavle to a shelter with other survivors, armed with a knife. The shelters with other survivors can be more dangerous, but there's a higher chance of them having things like food and medicine. Some of the shelters are abandoned, but some have other survivors. Everything in the game is just a translation of that knowledge." This is how the game presents its reality to you.Īt night, I'm given the chance to simply rest or send one of my survivors to another shelter around the city. "We were like 'let's create this experience' and we've done further research to find as much documentation as possible about real conflicts.
"It was a spark that caught us on fire," says Miechowski. It covers the experiences of a man trapped in a city during the Bosnian War. The post is reasonably popular, appearing first in French and then Russian before being translated into English. He tells me that his brother, who also works at 11-Bit, sent him a blog post entitled "One Year in Hell". I ask Miechowski what was the genesis of This War of Mine. Sorry, Pavle, it looks like you're going raiding tonight. While she does that, I use the last bit of material to build a still, so we have drinkable water. I pick Katia and have her take the last of my medicine and sleep in the bed I've created. The game primarily plays out from a side-scrolling perspective all black and grey, like a somber painting come to life. "The struggle people have when their city is under siege and war surrounds them is always the same, it doesn't matter if it's Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, or wherever because when civilization is down there's no power or tap water. "This War of Mine is not about made-up mechanics, it's a translation of our knowledge of war into games language," says Miechowski.
As I play This War of Mine's demo, senior writer Paweł Miechowski explains the studio's intent with the title.
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