#THIS IS WAR ANDROID#

#THIS IS WAR ANDROID#

The Android port was released on July 14, 2015, followed by the iOS port on the following day (July 15). This War of Mine was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in November 2014. There are various endings for each character, depending on the decisions made in the game. Characters have to make many difficult decisions in order to survive everyday dangers. The game differs from most war-themed video games by focusing on the civilian experience of war rather than front line combat. The exhibition is being presented with the kind support of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.This War of Mine is a war survival video game developed and published by the Polish game development company 11 Bit Studios. (From the introduction to вЂњThis is War!вЂќ) Only their weapons, the terrain, the causes have changed. I want to tell a story of war, as war has always been for men through the ages. I want to show something of the agony, the suffering, the terrible confusion, the heroism which is everyday currency among those men who actually pull the triggers of rifles aimed at other men known as В« the enemy В». I want to show the way men live, and die, when they know Death is among them, and yet they still find the strength to crawl forward armed only with bayonets to stop the advance of men they have never seen, with whom they have no immediate quarrel, men who will kill them on sight if given first chance. I want to show something of the comradeship that binds men together when they are fighting a common peril. Having shared their lives, as they did mine, during three years while moving up out of the South Pacific islands and right into Tokyo Bay for the surrender of the entire Japanese Empire, I took it for granted, when they arrived in Korea, that I would photograph their battles. Asking you to read the story in their faces and hands and bodies, as they were feeling it themselves at the moment of impact, is only fair to them вЂ“ and is asking more of you than ever before has been asked of the picture-viewing audience. Yet, to learn their stories, each page of photographs must be read as carefully as you might read a page of written text in a novel. I want you to feel something of what I felt, and, possibly, to think some of the things that I thought during those dreary months before the pictures of the book made it possible for the men to tell of themselves. I want you, the reader, to understand that I have not put this book together unknowingly or half-heartedly. I have tried, in every possible way, to present only a word screen upon which these men project their own story. Each explains in considerable detail the military situation confronting the troops and their activities as they lived through their days, and nights, while trying to solve those immediate problems.

Wishing that it might have been possible to publish this book without a single written word so that the men might tell their own story, yet understanding that there are many people, like my own mother and father, who lack the necessary background for comprehending the ordeals through which these men passed, or the conditions under which they perished, I have prefaced each picture-chapter with a short textblock. Each chapter deals with a military combat problemвЂ¦ the first, an attack upon a hillвЂ¦ the second, the capture of a cityвЂ¦ the third, a fighting retreat. Thus the photographs reflect only what the men in this book did, something of what they felt, and probably very little of what they thought. To sit down now to write subtitles for these pictures, telling what that man thought, would be a mockery of the worst order, for I didnвЂ™t even know what he was thinking when I made the picture. This book is an effort to completely divorce the word вЂњwarвЂќ as flung dramatically down off the highest benches of every land, from the look in the manвЂ™s eyes who is taking his last puff on perhaps his last cigarette, perhaps forever, before he grabs his rifle, his guts and his dreams вЂ“ and attacks an enemy position above him.Д«elieving that the look in that manвЂ™s eyes tells more clearly what he felt, I am presenting this book to you without a single caption, for any caption that I might write would just mirror what I was feeling, or thought I felt. It is simply an effort to show something of what a man endures when his country decides to go to war, with or without his personal agreement on the righteousness of the cause. There is neither climax nor ringing conclusion to this book. It is in no way a report on the progress of that war, nor does it make any pretense of telling the reasons behind the United NationsвЂ™ decision to intervene and try to stop the Communist invasion by force. This is War! is a book which happens to have been made possible by the war in Korea.

This is war