Serious Game Classification

Ben's Game Eric Johnston (Ben Duskin / Eric Johnston) (U.S.A.), Make-A-Wish Foundation (U.S.A.), 2004  

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Classification

SERIOUS GAME
(Newsgame)

Recommended for 12 years old and up

Keywords

Action - Arcade - Educational - Shooter - Therapeutic action

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Ben's Game Ben's Game is a video game about fighting cancer.

The game was conceptualised by Ben Duskin—an 8 year old American boy in remission from Leukemia. When interviewed by Make-A-Wish, he asked to design a video game to help other children endure cancer treatments. He remembered his oncologist telling him to visualize chemotherapy eating cancer cells and came up with the idea to create a video game. Eric Johnston, a software engineer from LucasArts created the game. It is freeware, available in Mac and PC formats, multilingual (9 languages) and can be downloaded on-line. Duskin and Johnston were awarded the "Unsung Hero of Compassion" by the Dalai Lama on 6 November 2005.
[source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Windows)

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