Holocaust Video Game Rejected by Nintendo Will Become Smartphone Game
Through a Child?s Eyes: ?Imagination Is the Only Escape? interprets the Holocaust through a child?s perspective. It will be released for smartphone users after being turned down by Nintendo. Image by indiegogo
The developer of a Holocaust-themed game which was rejected by Nintendo has announced plans to release his work for smartphone users.
British game developer Luc Bernard, 26, announced his plan on the website Indiegogo, a crowd-sourcing platform which helps developers and inventors find funding for their products.
Through a Child?s Eyes: ?Imagination Is the Only Escape? interprets the Holocaust through a child?s perspective. It will be released for smartphone users after being turned down by Nintendo. Image by indiegogo
Bernard made headlines in 2008 with his game “Imagination is the Only Escape,” which he developed for Nintendo and which looks at the events of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child.
The gaming giant eventually decided not to buy and market the game because it was deemed unfit for children, according to the New York Times.
Now Bernard said he would bypass corporations and raise funds online with a plan to release the game next year, according to a report by the news website The Verge.
Bernard’s mother is Jewish and her mother looked after orphaned Jewish children after World War II, he told the Times.
His game features the character of a young boy named Samuel during the Nazi occupation of France in 1942, who seeks to escape real life into his own fantasy world.
Bernard told The Verge that the game is meant to inspire players to read up on the history of the Holocaust.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you move on, I wanted to ask you to support the Forward’s award-winning journalism during our High Holiday Monthly Donor Drive.
If you’ve turned to the Forward in the past 12 months to better understand the world around you, we hope you will support us with a gift now. Your support has a direct impact, giving us the resources we need to report from Israel and around the U.S., across college campuses, and wherever there is news of importance to American Jews.
Make a monthly or one-time gift and support Jewish journalism throughout 5785. The first six months of your monthly gift will be matched for twice the investment in independent Jewish journalism.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
