Christine Edwards
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122 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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World like everything does feel immediate and like, you know You should have what you asked for today five minutes from now and it just doesn't it doesn't work that way even though game development Still takes just as long as game development has always taken in a lot of ways I think it's a lot harder than it used to be
and it's just communicating that with, with the community and actually like getting that level of understanding and empathy. Maybe.
To be fair, I was also going to say the Warthog, not because I've actually played the Warthog, because I remember it. Because you guys are wise, and you're smart.
And you know. And it's called a Warthog, and isn't that cute?
That sounds disgusting. I don't want to drink that.
That feels right, doesn't it?
Machines need like oil and grease and stuff.
Yeah, so our primary mission really is to empower our community to make the world a better place through supporting three core pillars that we have, which is supporting children's well-being, inclusion, diversity, and equity, and humanitarian aid. So what a lot of people I think don't really recognize is the Bungie Foundation is like 98% funded by the Bungie community.
It's through our fundraisers. It's through like when we do in-game activations. It's the core of what we do and it supports all the work that we do.
So yeah, so I mean, from a children's wellbeing perspective, we kind of have two core areas, but one really primary focus, which is the Little Lights program, formerly iPads for Kids, where we partner with children's hospitals all over the country to provide entertainment technology, entertainment distraction for kids while they're going through some of the darkest days of their lives.
Yeah, so it's really intended to provide entertainment, distraction, therapeutic play, a sense of normalcy, just give them, you know, something that brightens their day when they're really struggling. And as we all know, games is such a powerful tool for that. So any patient who comes into the hospital, they get an iPad.
It's downloaded with a whole bunch of entertainment content that's age appropriate to their age. It takes into account their cognitive abilities, their physical disabilities. It's worked in partnership with Children's Hospital's Child Life Team and nursing staff to really make sure that every child gets the content that they can best utilize.
And we're in 20 plus hospitals at this point, which is super exciting. We also have a really amazing partnership with Make-A-Wish. Um, where we provide all their entertainment technology as well.
So we do anything from like, um, converting somebody's basement into a DJ studio to, you know, helping, you know, uh, kids who want to be YouTubers one day set up their YouTube setups, like whatever it might be. Like if it, if you can plug it in, turn it on, like we're the, we're the group that helps Make-A-Wish make those happen.
There's nothing more powerful than a gaming community.
But I think we figured it out pretty well. What motivates gamers to give back? We have a pretty good strategy there.
Oh, gosh.
There's so many moments. And honestly, some of the things that I think stand out for me most, I won't go into detail, because a lot of them are actually really hard, really heartbreaking moments. But I think the ones that are most powerful that really stand out to me have been kids who maybe in the end didn't make it and who in their last days and their last weeks and their last moments
moved to games, moved to technology to bring those final moments of joy, to distract them from what they were going through, to distract them from the pain that they were maybe feeling. I mean, you all know, like once, like if you're in a game, like you are hardcore focused, like the world, you know, just kind of disappears around you.
And that's what we see, I think, at children's hospitals with Make-A-Wish kids all the time is these really hard, painful moments that they're going through when you immerse them in something that puts them in a different world and a different mentality. for just like a little bit, the world gets to fade away a little bit and they can just be kids.
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