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Me and my team are having difficulty understanding what the jam's about

A topic by [vitor.] created May 13, 2022 Views: 199 Replies: 4
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Are the games meant for mentally ill people or are they to bring awareness? Or something else?

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The games are meant to be fun therapeutic tools for people suffering from mental health conditions like anxiety and depression.

What is considered a therapeutic game? That term is too broad, for example, is Minecraft considered a therapeutic game? Since it could help people with such conditions; is Celeste a therapeutic game? Since it could also help people with depression / anxiety.  

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Almost every game in existence could be considered a therapeutic game.

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While Minecraft and Celeste may result in therapeutic experiences for many people, they likely weren't designed to be explicitly that. The games in this jam are meant to be intentionally designed to be both fun and therapeutic. As GGJ has posted before, this page gives a very good overview of what they're looking for:

https://www.deepwelldtx.com/post/discover-game-jam-mechanisms-examples