电子游戏：生死攸关的问题？

In May of 2006, the then 11-year-old boy, Taylor Carol, was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia, and the doctors predicted that he had two weeks to live. But Taylor proved them wrong. What’s more, he found a special way to cope with the endless months in isolation, and loss of normal childhood activity. Video games rescued Taylor’s childhood, allowing him to communicate with other kids, and distracting him from the otherwise nearly unbearable period of his cancer treatment.

2006年5月，当时11岁的男孩泰勒·卡罗尔(Taylor Carol)被诊断出患有罕见的白血病，医生预测他有两个星期的生命。 但是泰勒证明他们错了。 更重要的是，他找到了一种特殊的方式来应对无休止的几个月的孤独生活，以及正常儿童活动的丧失。 电子游戏挽救了泰勒的童年，使他能够与其他孩子交流，并使他从原本几乎无法忍受的癌症治疗中分心。

After a grueling five-year battle with cancer, Taylor fully recovered and went on to found the nonprofit organization, GameChanger, with his father in 2008. GameChanger helps children and families suffering from cancer and other rare diseases by providing the kids with game experiences and other types of entertainment.

经过五年艰苦的抗癌斗争，泰勒完全康复，并于2008年与父亲一起成立了非营利组织GameChanger。GameChanger通过为孩子们提供游戏体验和帮助他们来帮助患癌症和其他罕见疾病的儿童和家庭。其他类型的娱乐活动。

A GameChanger visit with some gaming goodies brings a smile to a child’s face at UCLA Children’s Hospital.

在UCLA儿童医院，带着一些游戏用品进行GameChanger参观使孩子的脸上露出笑容。

I’m pleased to say that Unity has now committed to supporting GameChanger with awareness campaigns and donations. We’ll also be contributing tutorials to an exciting new GameChanger technology platform, which will deliver streaming content and interactive activities exclusively to hospitalized children.  

我很高兴地说，Unity现在致力于通过意识运动和捐赠来支持GameChanger。 我们还将为令人兴奋的新GameChanger技术平台提供教程，该平台将专门为住院儿童提供流媒体内容和互动活动。

I can’t think of a more worthy cause to support. GameChanger brings hope to the kids and families who need it most. And it does so in a tangible way that has an immediate and direct impact. Every parent and family’s worst fear is having to face a crisis and challenge like this.  I implore everyone in the community who can afford to get involved, even in a modest way, to do so by making a donation.

我想不出值得支持的理由。 GameChanger给最需要它的孩子和家庭带来希望。 它以切实的方式产生了直接而直接的影响。 每个父母和家人最担心的就是必须面对这样的危机和挑战。 我恳请社区中每个有能力通过 捐款进行 参与的人，即使参与程度不高 。

Straight to the kids and their families

直接针对孩子及其家人

Unlike traditional fundraising charities, GameChanger repurposes donated items and uses digital technologies to help children directly. This business model requires a low overhead and a small staff, which makes them highly efficient.

与传统的筹款慈善机构不同，GameChanger会重新利用捐赠的物品并使用数字技术直接帮助儿童。 这种业务模型需要较低的开销和少量的人员，这使它们高效。

Charity Watch considers an organization to be highly efficient when 75% of their donations go to the beneficiary. By comparison, 96% of GameChanger’s donations and money make it to the patients and their families.

当慈善 捐款的75％捐赠给受益人时， 慈善观察 组织认为该组织是高效的。 相比之下，GameChanger的96％捐款和金钱都捐给了患者及其家人。

In the nine years since they were founded, GameChanger has:

自成立以来的9年中，GameChanger拥有：

• Met and helped 10,000 kids dealing with life-threatening illnesses

  遇见并帮助10,000名孩子应对危及生命的疾病

• Raised over $200,000 towards finding a cancer cure

  为寻求癌症治疗筹集了超过200,000美元的资金

• Donated over 20,000 video games to hospitals, children centers, partner charities and families

  向医院，儿童中心，合作伙伴慈善机构和家庭捐赠了20,000多个视频游戏

• Awarded 57 character-based college scholarships to cancer survivors and other inspiring young role models who battled through adversity

  颁发了57个基于角色的大学奖学金，以奖励癌症幸存者和其他在逆境中奋斗的年轻榜样

GameChanger founder, Jim Carol, with one of the youngest, and bravest, kids the charity organization has ever met.

GameChanger创始人Jim Carol是该慈善组织有史以来最年轻，最勇敢的孩子之一。

Can video games actually help children survive life-threatening diseases?

电子游戏真的可以帮助儿童度过致命的疾病吗？

A 2012 study from the University of Utah suggests that not only can video games help patients with cancer and other diseases to cope, they can actually have health-related benefits.

一个 2012的研究 由美国犹他大学表明，不仅可以将视频游戏帮助患者与癌症和其他疾病的应对，他们其实可以有健康相关的福利。

This research is in line with what GameChangers have experienced with so many of the children they’ve helped. For example, when the organization brought a game to toddler, Christian, who was waiting for a heart transplant at Seattle Children’s Hospital, the impact was evident.

这项研究与GameChangers对他们所帮助的许多孩子的经历相吻合。 例如，当该组织给正在西雅图儿童医院等待心脏移植的蹒跚学步的克里斯蒂安(Christian)带来游戏时，影响显而易见。

According to his mother, up until then, Christian had been listless and barely had had the energy to sit up. The game had an immediate effect.

根据他母亲的说法，直到那时，克里斯蒂安一无所有，几乎没有精力坐起来。 游戏立即产生效果。

“He started sitting up for longer and longer each day, and he learned how to use the Xbox controller and play on his own,” Christian’s mother says. “He has more energy because of how his lungs and failing heart work when he’s sitting up. His occupational therapist is thrilled because of how he’s learning to use the controller.”

克里斯蒂安的母亲说：“他每天开始坐的时间越来越长，他学会了如何使用Xbox控制器并自己玩。” “他坐起来时，由于肺部和心脏衰竭的工作原理，他拥有更多的精力。 他的职业治疗师因为学习如何使用控制器而兴奋不已。”

In 2016, as a part of the Gamers Give Back tour, GameChanger will meet 8,000 kids like Christian with life-threatening diseases. They will help the children and their families get through some of the most difficult challenges imaginable in life.

在2016年，作为Gamers Give Back巡回演出的一部分，GameChanger将与8,000名像克里斯蒂安一样患有致命性疾病的孩子见面。 他们将帮助儿童及其家庭度过生活中可想象到的最困难的挑战。

了解有关GameChanger以及更多帮助方法的信息： (Learn more about GameChanger and the various ways you can help:)

进行直接用于事业 的在线捐赠 (Make an online donation that goes directly to the cause)

将多余或过时的电子产品清单 发送给慈善机构 (Send excess or obsolete electronics inventory to the charity)

安排接送服务 ， 为孩子们 捐赠视频游戏， 游戏机和装备 (Schedule a pickup to donate video games, consoles and gear to the kids)

翻译自: https://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/08/19/video-games-a-matter-of-life-and-death/