Peter Brinson, Kurosh ValaNejad: The Cat and the Coup
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- The Cat and the Coup
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- DAC Online Exhibition 2014: Aesthetics of Gameplay
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The Cat and the Coup is a documentary videogame in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off of shelves, scattering his papers, jumping on his lap and scratching him.
