Meet the game designer who wants to share how it feels to flee

Rawand Ahmad found it was not easy to turn the experience of flight, an emotional and complex topic, into a game, he says, describing the process as a constant balancing act between seriousness and play. — Marijan Murat/dpa

LUDWIGSBURG, Germany: When people are forced to leave their countries, their lives in danger, there are things they learn that they never forget.

Take the importance of information. If you are ever in a desperate situation and face the choice between a mobile phone and water, take the former, says Rawand Ahmad, who fled from Iraq with his family when he was a child.