Before I sit, Josh Larson is careful to make one thing clear: “This is a game about Ryan and his wife’s four-year-old son, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer two and a half years ago,” he explains. And then this: “He’s still alive."

It takes guts to look back at the things you didn't know when you were younger, and to examine them in light of the things you know now. But that's just what writer Jenn Frank (who we've featured here talking about everything from motherhood and sea monkeys to the adorableness of Diablo III) has done.