That Dragon, Cancer an Ouya exclusive
That Dragon, Cancer, an indie game that chronicles a child's battle with terminal cancer, has received an investment from Ouya to make a full exclusive release.
That Dragon, Cancer, an indie game that chronicles a child's battle with terminal cancer, has received an investment from Ouya to make a full, and newly exclusive, release. The small team is now expanding the 10-minute demo into prototypes that will ultimately include six or seven vignettes, aiming for a late 2014 release.
That Dragon, Cancer is the product of a four-man team, and tells the story of Joel, the 4-year-old son of one of the developers, Ryan Green. With the additional funding, they're planning to hire additional developers. Some ideas for vignettes include doctors treating Joel, or the child learning to walk again after treatment.
"Hopefully, it will give people a richer view into fighting cancer," Green told Polygon.
The team wants to make the full game show a broader range of emotions as well, as opposed to the intense singular demo. "There will be fun parts, funny parts," Green said, "so to kind of pigeonhole it just as dramatic or sad wouldn't be accurate. I hope people don't get the impression that you're simply watching a kid die."
If you'd like to try out the demo as it stands so far, it will be shown off at the PAX Prime indie booth later this month.
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That Dragon, Cancer, an indie game that chronicles a child's battle with terminal cancer, has received an investment from Ouya to make a full exclusive release.-
this is encroaching on my IP of a game where you suffer from really bad diarrhea
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What, Icarus Proudbottom In: The Curse Of The Chocolate Fountain?
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/01/26/bird-strike-curse-of-the-chocolate-fountain/
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I don't think they are competing with anyone.
The point of OUYA was to provide a platform for exactly this kind of game. So not only is it Indie friendly but it also gives the triple A devs a space to try new ideas and concepts even before they go on the other platforms.
So take Infinity Ward for example. Those guys do nothing but shooters all day long. But what if they wanted to try a Farm Simulator. No one in the industry would even entertain that conversation let alone finance it. This is were OUYA comes in. It allows these practically anyone the opportunity to create that kind of game.
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Very odd move. Such a serious topic, but it's an OUYA EXCLUSIVE CANCER GAME!!!!!!!111!!!
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does anyone really have a desire to play an Ouya?
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Yes, why not? A game a lot of people loved last year was about the struggles a transgendered person goes through. That's not any more "fun" sounding.
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What game was that?
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Dys4ia
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Oh. Must have missed it.
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Are film and literature the only mediums allowed to deal with serious topics?
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Why?
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They're not but it also doesn't mean it would make a good game either.
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maybe they should stop calling it a game
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Your Leukemeter™ is full.
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find cover to regenerate cancer cells!
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This is what I was thinking, but what else could it be called? I think video games' biggest hurdle for being recognized as a legitimate art form is that its name has a connotation of playful immaturity.
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these projects will naturally be perceived as pretentious they might as well roll with it and call them interactive tales or something else that's more evocative of what they're trying to accomplish. braid worked because it had the facade of a game with an underlying serious story.
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Yes, but I also enjoy empathy sometimes, because I'm normal.
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Nope.
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Fuck no.
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Does that also apply to movies, music, and books?
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WOW! What a great exclusive- NOT!
Go ahead and make the game, but then don't restrict the distribution for it. Why make it an exclusive? To get PR? It sure isn't because consumers are clamoring for this game. This is just a desperate stunt showcasing how few worthy exclusives OUYA has...-
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yeah seriously who does that?
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Shame that most people won't be able to play this. I don't begrudge them, though, a solid source of funding. It is better than people bankrupting themselves and mortgaging their family's futures with no outside financial support.
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Fun fact: Games like this help cancer-stricken children heal. The more games like this are purchased, the more it funds other projects that do the same thing for more people.
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