What exactly to do with one's grief is a decision we’ll all face, whether it's conscious or not. For Russell Quinn, who helped create the first iteration of this website, grief came, as it does, suddenly and senselessly when his mother and grandmother died soon after one another. After he returned home to Los Angeles, he decided to process by doing what he does best, and has been doing for years: making something interactive, virtual, and shared—in this case, a video game that depicts memories from the final year of his mother’s and grandmother's lives, Linda & Joan.
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