Lual Mayen turned his family’s escape from civil war in South Sudan into a powerful virtual world – that will have real-life benefits for refugees
that Lual Mayen’s mother gave birth to him 28 years ago. She had four children in tow and was near to the border with Uganda, in a town called Aswa. The journey was difficult; Mayen’s two sisters died on the way and he became sick. No one thought he would survive.
Mayen, up until this point, had never seen a video game and didn’t know how they were created. “I thought [they] fell from heaven,” he says. But, in that moment he decided he wanted to make a game that would encourage empathy and compassion, and promote peace and conflict resolution. In 2017, Mayen was granted a visa for the US, moved to Washington DC and founded his own company, Junub
The game will initially launch as a phone app, with a PC version coming later, and will be free to download. Players will need to make in-app purchases to buy their character essentials such as food, water and medicine to enable them to continue their journey. The funds will benefit real-life refugees through Junub Games’s partnerships with various NGOs.
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