Life is Unusual: True Colours was among the many winners within the new Interactive & Immersive narrative class on the Peabody Awards, which recognise excellence in storytelling.
The 83rd Peabody Awards passed off yesterday, with Deck 9 and Sq. Enix’s title recognised for “showcasing each empathy as a superpower and the ability of video games as a medium for emotionally resonant storytelling.”
The Peabody Awards additionally highlighted Lucy and the Wolves within the Partitions, a VR title from Fable Studio, “for its candy insistence that each one isn’t because it appears on this planet, that belief and perception transcend age, that neither adults nor youngsters have cornered the market on reality, and for its invitation to be curious at each nook.”
Reporters with out Borders’ The Uncensored Library, a set of censored articles being made out there inside Minecraft for individuals who won’t have the ability to entry them in any other case, was additionally given an award.
ContraPoints, a YouTube channel by Natalie Wynn, was additionally rewarded on this class, for “producing advanced, considerate, humorous, and artfully filmed movies that interact deliberative debate whereas exhibiting us that social media doesn’t all the time need to be poisonous.”
Lastly, Reeducated was the final winner within the interactive class. The VR documentary from The New Yorker seems into China’s systemic detention of Uyghurs, with the undertaking recognised for “co-creating highly effective immersive proof of life inside mass internment camps and bearing witness to the profound resolve of survivors in defence of their private and collective humanity.”
The Peabody Awards have solely been recognising interactive tasks since 2022, with Journey and Papers Please among the many recipients of Legacy Awards final yr.
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