The Game Awards 2016: Who Deserves To Win Each Category

12. Games For Impact Award - That Dragon, Cancer

Nominations:

1979 Revolution

Block'Hood

Orwell

Sea Hero Quest

That Dragon, Cancer

It's very hard to navigate the whys and wherefores of something like That Dragon, Cancer, considering the game's subject matter is literally a father witnessing his own infant son slowly pass away, but precisely because of that factor, it does make TDC the embodiment of this award.

1979 Revolution ostensibly feels like what Telltale would be doing if they weren't drowning in third-party franchise endorsements, and whilst Block'Hood makes some great points about the environment and the necessities of housing, the games themselves weren't wrenched from such emotional, human subject matter as That Dragon, Cancer.

Parents Ryan and Amy Green should simply be commended for taking what must have been the very raw and no doubt confusing process of translating their circumstances to code. The question of whether or not it is appropriate almost doesn't matter - they did, and the impact of such a thing can only be experienced by the rest of us.