Shadow's Edge asks kids with chronic conditions to bring life back to a city.
Shadow's Edge asks kids with chronic conditions to bring life back to a city.
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Shadow’s Edge adventure game helps kids cope with chronic disease

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Shadow’s Edge isn’t meant to be a blockbuster game, but it may be much more meaningful to the people that it reaches. It is a free mobile game for teens and young adults who are suffering from chronic illnesses such as cancer.

It’s an example of narrative therapy, which uses storytelling to help promote changes in perspective, enable distance from pain or trauma, and identify skills and strategies for managing being sick, said Rosemary Lokhorst, producer of Shadow’s Edge, in an interview with VentureBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.