Escape from Woomera

A Half-Life mod that puts you inside Australia's controversial Woomera Detention Centre for asylum applicants. You can try to get yourself asylum; navigate the daily routines of what's essentially prison life; or try to escape from the razor-wire compound. Of course, you can't get asylum, and you can't escape either. The inevitable gameplay failure highlights the no-win situation asylum applicants are put in, and the portrayal of prison-like conditions aims to highlight to the game-playing public why they should oppose the detention center (the game is unapologetically part of an anti-Woomera campaign). Got a good bit of media coverage during development.


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