Luke was here: A remarkable moment of kindness during the making of Marvel's Midnight Suns - GamesIndustry.biz

There's a tree in Marvel's Midnight Suns with an engraving on it.

The Luke in question is UK video game fan Luke Wiltshire.

Over the nine years of treatment, and the immobility it brought, Luke had found solace in video games and Marvel.

Last year, Luke was told the devastating news that there were no curative options remaining.

and he wanted to play Marvel's Midnight Suns.

But Marvel’s Midnight Suns was more than a year way from release, and made by a games developer hundreds of miles away in Baltimore, Maryland.

Claire knew that Luke wouldn't be around to see the game come out.

Phone calls were being made between senior games bosses, from all sorts of different companies, trying to find the right people for Solving Kids’ Cancer to speak to.

There was no Midnight Suns build at the time.

With very little time left, Firaxis, 2K and Marvel got together and worked through the night to get a build ready for Luke to play.

2K's social media manager at the time, Asim Tanvir, volunteered to courier the game to Luke's house.

Luke was named game design consultant -- you'll see his name in the credits -- and got the chance to play and evaluate Marvel's Midnight Sun’s first act.

That wasn't all, despite the time difference, developers from 2K and Firaxis, plus Marvel Games creative director Bill Rosemann, jumped on a video call to share stories with Luke.

Luke was then told about the engraved tree in the grounds of the Abbey in Midnight Suns.

Luke said that he had been "forever immortalised in Marvel.".

You can watch his story above in a video created by game developer Sumo -- it is up for an award at the Charity Film Awards (you can vote for it here)