# A video game to cope with grief

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDNYC
- Speaker: Amy Green
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_green_a_video_game_to_cope_with_grief)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

When Amy Green's young son was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor, she made up a bedtime story for his siblings to teach them about cancer. What resulted was a video game, "That Dragon, Cancer," which takes players on a journey they can't win. In this beautiful talk about coping with loss, Green brings joy and play to tragedy. "We made a game that's hard to play," she says, "because the hardest moments of our lives change us more than any goal we could ever accomplish."

## Lectures

1. [A video game to cope with grief](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/amy_green_a_video_game_to_cope_with_grief/914e48028d2f), 11 min (TED's player)