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Susan what we are looking at is a videogame you have produced. With the title salam. What is the premise of this game . Lual the purpose of the game is in my journey and in the gaming industry, i realized that video games are a powerful tool to bring communities together and also to create empathy and to help people understand the war crisis. When i created this, theres a people that do not understand who refugees are and what actually it takes them to become refugees. So this is a game that help people understand the journey to being a refugee. So you take them to a peaceful environment. And also in the game, we do not identify which one is a peaceful environment. Its not a country. But its a place where you can have a place of peace, a place of refuge. A place where you can have peace of mind. The most important thing that in the game you take a character from the war country, from a place like theres a lot of hardship on their way, their journey because a lot of people , dont unders