I wish to explore that feeling of togetherness and understanding of what it is like to go through the grieving process. I present my design, titled Bereavement in Blacksburg, and hope that it is a step in the right direction to expressing such feelings in an interactive medium. I fully admit these thoughts aren' t fully fleshed out, even after I attempted to build this game for months, due to the difficulty with exploring these emotions and the scope that I felt it would take.

Heir' s concept pits the player as a Virginia Tech student waking up the day after the shootings and trying to cope with the emotional impact. A hidden " grief score" tracks how the player deals with with his character' s girlfriend and other students on campus following those terrible events. Heir acknowledges that his ideas are rough. He' s looking for feedback.

This wouldn' t work as a game. He should write a book instead.