Gaming in healthcare has a new supporter in funnyman Will Ferrell, who’s the face of a new crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a charity that provides video games to children with cancer.
Ferrell’s offering up the chance to win a one-on-one gaming session that will be broadcast live on video platform Twitch in exchange for donations of $10 or more through the SuperMegaBlastMax Gamer Challenge. The fundraiser is hosted on Indiegogo and supported by Xbox and Amazon.
It’s organized by two cancer charities: Cancer for College, which awards scholarships to young cancer survivors, and DonateGames, which partners with game publishers and collects video games for children with cancer.
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For children with cancer, playing video games while going through treatment “provides a much needed escape and allows them to feel like a regular kid again,” DonateGames says. Not only that, but a growing body of evidence supports video games as a way to boost medication adherence and other behavioral outcomes in children with cancer. Some game developers have even designed games specifically for young patients.
So far, the campaign has raised $40,000 of a $350,000 goal.
