GRIEF

Overview

Design Goal

This project was made as part of the 2D Game Project class of my master's and came from a proposal to make a game to about the empathy. The idea was to make the player feel empathy towars the main character by making a game around their journey of mourning throughout the five stages of grief.

Core Mechanics

• The game takes place inside the main character's mind as she travels memories she had with her brother.
• Wendy is haunted by visions of her brother that she desperatly chases after.
• Each level represents one of the 5 stages of grief.

Design Challenges

The main challenges were finding a way to turn each stage of grief into a level while having a consistent visual identity and giving it a story that matched the game's progression.

Solutions & Decisions

We decided that the levels would diferentiate themselves by the color pallete, sound and content. The story would follow the descriptions of the five stages of grief in the Kübler-Ross Model.

Results & Learnings

• The visual style of the game and the overall atmosphere received plenty of complements.
• The movement and progression felt slow at certain parts of the game.
• In the future I would polish the game loop and develop the rest of the game in order to make it a full experience.

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