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# Kids design game for mental health awareness
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/kids-design-game-for-mental-health-awareness/
- Published: 2011-11-23T17:56:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:29:33.000Z
- Description: A group of kids out of Cumbria have decided that the best way to raise awareness about mental health disorders was to create a game. Finlay Miles, 13, Matty Goad, 16, and Reuben Kane, 14, all have Asperger’s syndrome and came up with a design featured a character named “Naked Edgar” a cartoonist’s d
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A group of kids out of Cumbria have decided that the best way to raise awareness about mental health disorders was to create a game. Finlay Miles, 13, Matty Goad, 16, and Reuben Kane, 14, all have Asperger’s syndrome and came up with a design featured a character named “Naked Edgar” a cartoonist’s discarded creation.

> “We were inspired to create this game because we all have social disorders and wanted to make people think about them – it was a bit self indulgent, but it became a really fun experience.”

The game, called *Shaded,* is currently entered in the BAFTA Young Game Designers competition. If the boys win, they’ll get the chance to make their game a reality with professional game developers at an EA Games studio.

\[[via](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-15759055?ref=killscreen.com)\]

– *Filipe Salgado*