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way to cope with his loss, and picked up its development soon after Joel's funeral. To that point the game had been written based on unknowing of Joel's fate, but with his death, the team recognized that much of what they had in place was more focused on the narrative from Ryan and Amy's side, and made it feel more of a selfish work. There were also concerns from investors about the interactivity of the title. They rewrote about 70% of the game to make it more focused on the interactions with Joel. Originally, the game would have ended with the player witnessing a machine with numerous levers that could be pulled, giving the player some sense of control, but when they examined the machine's internals, would realize that all of the levers were disconnected, and that they had no control of the situation. Following Joel's death, they felt this scene was no longer applicable, and replaced it with the players interacting a final time with Joel in a cathedral in an afterlife-type setting as to bring closure to their story. With the change, Ryan hoped that the game would help people to cope and open up with others about the loss of loved ones. One design decision made was to represent the characters in the game with blank faces. Ryan stated that this was both that being a small team they did not have the technical capability to fully program and animate the character's faces, and that by leaving the faces featureless, it would help players engage by imagining themselves in the place of the game's characters.
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they had to face during Joel's life expressed as interactive art. The player is able to interact with the characters and make certain choices, similar to those faced by the Greens. The first scene is where the parents have learned of their child's diagnosis, having the player consider their new responsibilities for caring for the child while reflecting on the "absurdity and sterility" of the hospital setting. The game includes some fantasizing and imaginative reconstructions of some of the real moments the Greens experienced, such as a wagon ride in a hospital being envisioned as a colorful racing game. Alongside the interactivity, the game includes narration from Ryan, Amy, and other family members, as well as recordings such as voicemails that they had made during their time with Joel. The scenes include cards, letters, and other mementos of support for the Greens, sent by people who had experienced similar losses in their life.
360:. The translated scene in the demonstration had the player, as Ryan, at home with Joel at their nursery, with Joel constantly crying. Though numerous objects such as toys and books are given for the player to try to calm Joel down, none of them work, and attempting to leave the nursery was forbidden; only until all of the provided options were tried was the player given the last choice to sit down and resort to prayer to calm Joel down. The demonstration caught the attention of many of the media there, putting the title into the limelight. Several investors stepped forward to offer to help fund the completion of the game, but some of these investors later backed out, considering the project to be too risky. Ryan Green had been able to secure a deal with funding from
372:. After seeing the game at its current state in early 2013, Santiago "felt it needed to be made". The Ouya funding helped to support the Greens and Larson, as well as enabling them to hire three more developers. When Green announced the Ouya deal in August 2013, a few months after the console's public release to lukewarm reception, many criticized Green's choice due to the poor perception of the Ouya system, as well as a poorly worded
527:'s ContentID system to flag and take down some of these videos, leading some players to complain. Ryan admitted this was not the best approach towards addressing the issue. Ryan felt that they would be satisfied if these viewers had left small tips on Numinous Games' website in lieu of purchasing the game, so that Numinous could continue to develop more titles.
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336:. Ryan stated that with video games "you can create this world and ask the player to live in it and love what you have created". The name of the game is taken from a story that the Greens had told their other sons about Joel's illness through an allegory about how Joel was a brave knight fighting a dragon named Cancer.
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also agreed to spend three months to help develop the title before returning to work. Once those months were over, Amy could not force Ryan to go back to work, both feeling that the game needed to be completed at this point. Amy, a writer, had already written a self-published book about their experience with Joel,
393:. The Kickstarter was successful, raising more than $ 100,000 from nearly 3,700 backers, and through it, several funders shared with the Greens their own photos and stories of their losses of their children at young ages due to incurable or inoperable maladies, which would be included within the game.
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during their reflection on the past few years, specifically recalling a night at the hospital where he was trying to stop Joel from crying but anything he did seemed to make his crying worse; only after he sat down and prayed to God did Joel stop crying; Ryan recalled how that reminded him of a video
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at twelve months of age. By
November 2010, the doctors had given the child about four months to live, but despite developing seven additional tumors, Joel continued to live for four years following his initial diagnosis. Joel's condition left him mentally underdeveloped, being unable to speak even by
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campaign with the goal to have simultaneous release of the Ouya version alongside versions for
Windows and Mac OS X. The campaign was designed to raise sufficient funds, $ 85,000, to avoid pushing back the title from the planned mid-2015 release, and would be aided, if its goal were met, by personal
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in 2011. The two began talking about co-developing a game, and Larson had suggested that their hardships with Joel would make for a strong project. By late 2012, Larson agreed to forgo contract work for a year to work off savings to help bring the game to life, and after discussion with Amy, Ryan
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treatment. In early 2014, Joel's condition worsened, and the Greens temporarily moved from
Colorado to San Francisco to take part in an experimental drug trial. The new drug failed to relieve the boy's new symptoms, so the Greens, following the advice of the
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was highly praised by reviewers on its release, with many favorably commenting on the overwhelming emotional difficulty presented that forces the player to experience and understand what the Greens had gone through with Joel. Sam
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made effective use of the video game medium, as by forcing the player to interact instead of remaining an observer, the game "compels us to shoulder some of the creators’ grief and to embrace the legacy of Joel’s short life". Lucy O'Brien for
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had simply played through the game without commenting on it or providing viewers with links and information about the game, giving viewers no incentive to purchase the title once they had seen it in its entirety. Numinous Games used
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Ryan began to seek funding to help support the project. He had initially developed a short demonstration of the game based on trying to calm Joel during that night at the hospital, which he and Larson demonstrated at the 2013
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January 12, 2016, coinciding with what would have been Joel's seventh birthday. The Greens encouraged supporters to enjoy pancakes for dinner on the day of release, as it was Joel's favorite food.
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game with subverted game mechanics. He wanted to relay his experiences of raising Joel to a larger audience, and felt that an interactive video game would be a better medium to express a message of
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Ryan and Amy worked with Josh Larson, a game developer that Ryan had met in 2010 while working at Soma Games, a developer for
Christian video games. Their friendship developed further after a
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message that Ouya had used to announce the product. Green defended his choice of opting for the Ouya, stating the company behind the device has good intentions towards the larger goal.
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and raw autobiographical experience from the parents' view, making the player deal with the difficult emotions and the strength of the Greens' faith. Alongside the game, a documentary,
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October 24, 2016. An audio documentary on the genesis of the game and the family's grief in preparing for Joel's death was produced by Gimlet with interviews by Ryan and Amy Green.
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summarized her review of the game as "imperfect, but unforgettable".
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was initially aimed for release as a time-limited exclusive for the
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