Another great meeting with Sarah. I feel like I had a lot of discombobulated thoughts in my head and she was able to help me straighten them out a bit. She gave me the courage to start creating a framework for iteration, then actually doing it in terms of the game that I want to make. And in that process, I could find the “thing” that I’m looking for or resonates.
She also helped verbalize this feeling I had of “is creating the art for it’s own sake, or making that feeling of connection enough?” The past week I’ve been struggling to imagine what the setting would be for my game because I wasn’t really sure if there was a deeper meaning I was explicitly trying to express alongside with thinking of innovative ways to use video games and networks within them to create an emotion.
My next steps are to think more about this framework and some more janky games, which was a struggle for me before. I also want to continue looking into Jane McGonigal’s work, check out the materials for empathy in games Sarah sent me, and schedule a time to speak with Margaret!
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