This topic strongly remind me of a movie, Ender's Game. Here's a trailer of Ender's Game.
Ender's Game is about the nature of perception and reality. In the future, years after an alien race called the Formics who had attacked Earth and killed millions, and the world is focused on preparing commanders for the next great battle. Children are trained as the militaristic saviors to save the earth from Formics.
From the movie, there are some scenes that shows Ender playing a mind game on a tablet in which he navigates as a mouse through an area. It seems like a video game but it's actually a way for the colonel to further study and analyze Ender's frame of mind and leadership abilities while playing.
The second time he played, there's a game scene that appeared a bunch of leaves forms a formic (Ender doesn't know that it's a Formic Queen creature that time). Then, the creature floats for a while until it transforms into Ender's sister, Valentine. Ender is surprised, he continue following her to a Formic tower that had already ruined by the fallen bomb.
You couldn't tell anything from the game scene if you never finish watching the movie, in the last 10 minutes of the movie I guess, Ender's started regretted and realized (after attacking the Formic's planet) that the Formic Queen is actually trying to communicate/ contact with Ender using the Mind Game program as a medium which it uses his sister identity in the game. As they were making their final stand in an effort to save their species from the humans.
References:
Otis, A. (2013) "The Updated Moral Agenda of Gavin Hood's Ender's Game" [Online] Available at: http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2013/11/05/movie-review-enders-game/
Tallarita, A. (2013) "A Post-Apocalyptic Present: 'Ender’s Game' and the New Sci-Fi of Violation" [Online] Available at: http://www.popmatters.com/feature/176241-a-post-apocalyptic-present-enders-game-and-the-new-sci-fi-of-violati/
Further Reading:
http://www.screeningnotes.com/2013/11/enders-game-review.html
http://godawa.com/movieblog/enders-game-ludicrous-movie-spouts-identity-politics-child-supremacy-insect-rights
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