 He envisioned creating a video game that would train journalists to work in war-torn regions.Maniaty brought his idea to Robert Connolly, a film-maker who had directed "Balibo", a 2009 movie that tells the story of the five Australian journalists who were killed in the small town of Balibo in East Timor.With funding from Screen Australia and Screen NSW in the amount of , Maniaty and Connolly worked with video game designer Morgan Jaffit of Defiant Development, a Brisbane-based studio, to create a prototype of "Warco".