The Hazards of Building an Empathy Game for VR
Virtual reality seems like an incredible playing field for creators who want to put their players in someone else’s shoes. After all, you can almost literally walk in someone’s footsteps…
Virtual reality seems like an incredible playing field for creators who want to put their players in someone else’s shoes. After all, you can almost literally walk in someone’s footsteps…
[font_text link=”” icon=”star” color=”dark” size=”small” border=”off” spin=”off”]Content notice: Discussion of self-harm and suicide. Spoilers for Hellblade.[/font_text] When you first launch Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, the game warns you that its portrayal…
Developer Lucas Rizzotto is creating a space for us to share our thoughts with the universe. Where Thoughts Go is an intimate social VR space, but not of the sort…
Welcome to our roundup of the best mental health and games stories you’ve missed. This week we check in with the comic book world, consider the value of empathy games,…
The Power of Empathy from Gobblynne on Vimeo. A few months back, Doctor B wrote about the challenge of helping friends who are depressed for Geek & Sundry. He highlighted…
via GIPHY Empathy is a lot like a muscle – the only way to build it up is with repeated effort. Sure, you can (and probably should) improve it by…
After coming down from this week’s episode of Critical Role (any other Critters in the crowd?), I spotted this interesting bit of news on Geek & Sundry: researchers have found…
Can a game teach us what it’s like to experience depression if we don’t or to deal with crushing poverty if we haven’t? Depending on the gaming circles you travel…