Media coverage of Omaha gaming startup SkyVu Entertainment often notes the irregularity of an animation studio based in Nebraska, but the story of how the company’s creator, Ben Vu, laid roots here has rarely been told. Vu’s parents and older brother immigrated to the state in 1975, fleeing South Vietnam by boat in the chaotic and violent final days before Saigon fell to communist forces from the north, according to CNN. “(The Battle Bears game) kind of parallels the story my family tells of moving from Vietnam to America, that treacherous journey,” Vu told CNN. “They’ve always told me that story throughout childhood. It stuck with me.” — Source: CNN

Credits: Ben Vu photo by Malone & Company / Big Omaha

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