This 25-year-old African developer hopes that his video game will give players a better understanding of what it means to be homeless, hungry and on the run
WASHINGTON - The goal of Lual Mayen’s video game is to survive the horrific ordeal of a refugee, an experience that his family knows well, but the 25-year-old developer’s ambition is to change the world.
“It was a journey of life and death,” he said, recalling family stories about bomb attacks, wild animals and how babies were abandoned by parents who could no longer care for them. “Salaam is going to be the first-ever game that is going to bridge the virtual world and the reality on the ground,” he said. “When someone buys food in the game, you’re actually buying someone in a refugee camp food.”
Growing up in a refugee camp, Mayen had never even seen a computer until one day, at age 12, he reported to the camp’s registration center.Slideshow
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