Slavery for the day

Rico's friend Kema (she of the Slavery Museum) forwards an article from the Annenberg Center by Isaac Moody:

Video games are known to be violent, have eccentric characters, and allow the gamer to escape from reality. By 2015, the Ouya game console plans to release a game on slavery.Thralled is a single-player, platform puzzle video game about an eighteenth century runaway slave and her baby. The game encompasses the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and follows a slave woman named Isaura who escapes from a sugarcane plantation in colonial Brazil. She travels through jungles and completes a series of puzzles, such as moving boulders and cutting rope bridges, all while temporarily abandoning her baby, who eventually gets kidnapped. She feels conflicted about losing her child, while pursuing freedom, she is in fear of being caught and returned, forever separated from her son.“The game is about the relationship between mother and baby,” says Miguel Oliveira. He is the creator, director, and producer of Thralled. He says: “The game is about motherhood and the universality of a mother’s love.”Oliveira is a former international student graduate from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, Interactive Media & Games Division.  He was born and raised in Portugal, and created the idea for the story after taking a history class at USC.