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The journey of trauma

Primary LanguageTypeScriptApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

Zoe's Journey - A Game for Healing

This RPG isn't just a game; it's a profound exploration of how past traumas shape us, and how we can reclaim our future through courage, understanding, and self-care.

Welcome Page

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.