Zoe's Journey - A Game for Healing

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Inspiration

Hypothesis

• A Role Playing Game that stimulates the the Trauma stressors, symptoms and coping mechanisms can setup a safe environment for people to explore and learn more about trauma, to get the knowledge to identify and cope with possible trauma symptoms.
• Family Traumas are more common than people may think.

Potential Users

• People who are aware of their family traumas and are trying to heal from them.
• People who are going through anxieties or depressions which may be caused by previous family traumas that they’re not aware of.
• people who are interested in mental health and want to learn more about family traumas

What it does

"Our project is a seed of change; watering it with play grows understanding and recovery." - Just as seeds grow into plants with care, engaging with our game cultivates growth in understanding and recovery from trauma.

How we built it

• Learned about basic knowledge about family traumas, trauma symptoms, coping mechanisms, then designed narratives and gameplay based on it.
• Built the game via RPG JS framework.

Challenges we ran into

• Making a game is time consuming.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We built a complete RPG experience that explicitly shows the traumatic history, triggered symptoms, coping mechanisms of a typical family trauma.

What we have learned

Our mental capacity to deal with stress also dropped after staying too late...

What's next?

Conduct User Survey and Evaluation the Effects:

• Is it really safe?
  • Does the game trigger any emotions for people with similar family traumas?
  • Does pixel game provide a safe enough environment for psychological trauma survivor?
• Is it really helpful?
  • does the users learn something useful or knowledge about trauma?

Update the design based on the User Survey.

Built With

• rpgjs
• typescript