Salzburg Festival Science meets fiction: When games get serious
They don’t just want to entertain, they want to facilitate conversations and initiate debates: A game designer and psychologist develops computer games on conflict and taboo topics.
There are hardly any colors left in the world of the painter Thomas. He hasn’t left his room for months. The artist suffers from depression. And his girlfriend Ana suffers from the increasingly oppressive desolation. At first glance, the situation does not seem to offer much playfulness. Nevertheless, it is at the beginning of an award-winning computer game.
“We were a group of students who got to know each other in 2017 in the course of a competition and thought about which topic we would develop a game …
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