Podcast: Radiolab
Ryan and Amy Green were facing the unfaceable: their youngest son, Joel was diagnosed with terminal cancer after his first birthday. Ryan and Amy stumble onto an unlikely way of processing their experience fighting alongside Joel: they decide to turn it into a video game. In the end, they find themselves facing what might be, for a game designer or a parent, the hardest design problem ever.
This is an incredible emotional journey. It did bring tears to my eyes. Some listeners were critical because it turns the suffering of a child into a profitable outcome. But I disagree with that simplistic approach. People find different coping mechanisms to deal with extreme emotional circunstamces. This family bravely articulated emotion and science into art and technology.
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More information:
That Dragon, Cancer
Release trailer
NYTimes
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