The Healing Power of Making Video Games Like ‘Minecraft’

After tragedy and trauma, some game developers have found solace in the poetry of code and the power of storytelling

Keith Stuart
OneZero
Published in
9 min readNov 5, 2019

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GGranada Hills, Los Angeles, August 1999. Ben Formaker-Olivas was nine years old and jumpy with excitement. He and a bunch of other kids were at the North Valley Jewish…

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Keith Stuart
OneZero

Journalist/novelist. Author of A Boy Made of Blocks and Days of Wonder. Veteran video game player. Twitter: @keefstuart