PopCap Teams Up With 9-year-old, Creates Fun Video Game

PopCap recently released the Allied Star Police, a game which originated from the 4th and Battery studio – a place wherein PopCap’s designers can be creative and develop different offbeat games. The Allied Star Police is a mixture of a tower defense game and a real-time strategy that takes place in a futuristic setting and galaxy wars. But would you ever imagine that this brilliant creation actually came from the artsy mind of a 9-year-old kid?

Owain Weinert, a boy suffering from pre-B Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, participated in the PopCamp event as a part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The said event allows all PopCap developers to use their creativity and imagination to create different games. The 9-year-old Owain then partnered with the 4th and Battery crew in order to fulfill his wish of creating a video game, which resulted to the Allied Star Police.

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