Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Discovering that your young child is seriously ill is a scenario that fills every parent with dread. For some families, it's a reality that they're forced to deal with.
In 2010, Joel Evan Green was diagnosed with brain cancer. He was just one year old at the time.
His parents, Ryan and Amy, did what many parents would do in that situation— they ached, they cried, they prayed. But then they did something different. They built a video game about their experience.
A new documentary titled "Thank You For Playing" recounts the development of the game, called "That Dragon, Cancer."
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Ryan Green joined Take Two to talk about how he came up with the idea to create a computer game about his family's experience and how it helped him get some distance from and then process his grief.
To hear the full interview, click the blue player above.