In an early demo of the video game That Dragon, Cancer, a certain moment struck a nerve for one user. â??We had a player who got to the point where she had to press pray,â? said codeveloper Josh Larson. She said, â??I canâ??t keep playing. I put myself in the playerâ??s shoes, and I wouldnâ??t do that if it were me.â?
Larson and Ryan Green are Christians developing That Dragon, Cancer, a game that aims to convey Greenâ??s experience raising his son, Joel, who died of cancer last year at age 5. Where a writer might convey that experience with words, Green and Larson are doing so in a video game.
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