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Ben's Game

2004-06-30 18:04:58.698719+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Cool article on Eric Johnston helping young cancer patient Ben Duskin create a computer game. Ben asked for help from the Make A Wish Foundation, and Eric worked with Ben to create Ben's Game, a third person shooter with some interesting dynamics that uses Ben's experience of cancer as its driving metaphor.

But, for those of you with young kids who want to start customizing games in your lives, it also has a fairly easy way to build new player characters...

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