Tag: empathy

• Games mock realities that, at their best, can make players feel an emotion more powerfully than any other medium. You are the on-screen actor, and you control the game’s plot through your actions. Having control means you’re responsible, within obvious bounds, for what happens in the game, so achievements, failures, consequences and the emotions those…

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  13/12/2014

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  empathy, games, social justice

• What does it feel like to face the death of a child, or to live with hopelessness, or to suffer from the bitterness of extreme loneliness? Fiction and art have grappled with these issues for centuries. Now games are showing us what it is to exist at the extreme margins. A new generation of games,…

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  13/12/2014

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  empathy, games