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Posts tagged “PTSD”

  • Monsterhearts 2 Does Its Part to Build a Safer Tabletop Community

    By Nissa Campbell · May 24, 2017 · Video Games

    For anyone with an appetite for young adult fiction and horror, Monsterhearts rates as a must-play tabletop RPG. Created by Avery Alder, it’s a Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game about being young, confused,…

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  • ‘Anamorphine’ Is Looking Gorgeous and Dark

    By Nissa Campbell · Apr 13, 2017 · Video Games

    Anamorphine is an upcoming game that tells a story about the effects of trauma in a strikingly visual way. Its creators promise no dialogue or direct interactions — just exploration…

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  • Games Are Healing My Dumb Brain – How Bit Bash Gave One Artist a Community

    By Take This, and Becca Hallstedt · Feb 22, 2017 · Stories

    [font_text link=”” icon=”star” color=”dark” size=”small” border=”off” spin=”off”]Content warning: discussing of trauma and its effects.[/font_text] In early September of 2014, I was standing outside of a Threadless warehouse with a friend…

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  • ‘Southern Monsters’ Asks Players to Juggle PTSD, Cryptid Hunting, and Petting Cats

    By Nissa Campbell · Feb 6, 2017 · Video Games

    “In South Arkansas there’s talk of a monster,” begins Southern Monsters’ Kickstarter description. Where he roams, the locust thorns build barbed walls around the riverbank, not far from your house.…

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  • Zoë Quinn on the Collateral Damage of “Triggered” Jokes

    By Nissa Campbell · Jan 9, 2017 · PTSD

    Over the weekend, game developer Zoë Quinn (Depression Quest, Framed) tackled a meme that many of us with mental health issues struggle with: the rampant, casual misuse of the idea…

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  • Virtual Reality is Helping Veterans From WWII Onward

    By Nissa Campbell · Nov 11, 2016 · Research

    For many of the veterans of World War II, war memorials are out of reach. They’re in their late 80s and 90s now and travel can be a challenge, even…

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  • What ‘Gears of War’ Got Right About Trauma

    By Nissa Campbell · Oct 25, 2016 · Video Games

    Taken at face value, the Gears of War franchise doesn’t look much like a nuanced meditation on the costs of war. Chainsaw guns, gore, and unrealistically muscular men fighting monsters…

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  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy Authors Share Their Mental Health Stories for #HoldOnToTheLight

    By Nissa Campbell · Oct 5, 2016 · Stories

    Some of the best and brightest in the science fiction/fantasy world are sharing their struggles with mental health issues this month as part of #HoldOnToTheLight, a campaign to help raise…

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