Tumor
Tactics

Daniel was nine years old when his grandmother, the person who raised him, was diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer. He spent eight months watching her get weaker in hospital rooms he did not understand. The treatments seemed to be hurting her, and no one explained why. He was too young to know what questions to ask, and no one thought to offer the answers.

Six years later, his grandfather was diagnosed. In the doctor's office that day, Daniel's seven-year-old sister was sitting with the same look on her face that Daniel remembered from his own childhood: trying to understand something impossible with no one giving her the words. So he became the one who gave them. He read the medical reports. He translated the complicated language into something a seven-year-old could hold onto. He gave her what he had once desperately needed.

Zachary grew up on strategy card games and watched his great-aunt go through cancer treatment with the same question: why is there no way for a kid to actually understand what is happening? Together, they set out to build what neither of them had. Not a simplified version of cancer, but a real one, grounded in actual oncology, where players make the same decisions oncologists make and learn the science by living inside it.