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Digital Game: Adventures With Anxiety
In “Adventures With Anxiety” you play the role of someone’s anxiety, personified as a wolf. The game allows users to explore a challenging topic through a unique perspective.
"Adventures With Anxiety" is a free online game that can be described as interactive fiction. It was developed by Nicky Case and published in 2019. You can download and play the game for free from this website.
- In your own words, how would you explain the term "anxiety"?
- Comment on how anxiety can be both visible and invisible.
- Does the title "Adventures With Anxiety" give you a positive or negative feeling? Explain your answer.
- In your role as the wolf, list some of the ways in which you inflicted anxiety on your human?
- How did you “win” each round as the wolf?
- Why do you think the game developer chose a wolf to personify anxiety?
- In groups, discuss the endings to your game. What were the similarities/differences?
- In small groups, discuss the difficulties young people face today. What difficulties can you identify, and what are their causes? How can we, as a society, help combat these difficulties? Make a podcast (using Screencast-O-Matic, Audacity or any tool that lets you record audio) in which you discuss these questions as a group.
- Read the blog entry "Fighting Anxiety and Stigma" and complete the tasks.