Thijshijsijsjss: Elaborate on thoughts about adventures with anxiety

2024-10-18T14:32:54Z

Elaborate on thoughts about adventures with anxiety

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	* play it [https://ncase.me/anxiety/ here]		* play it [https://ncase.me/anxiety/ here]

			''Adventures with Anxiety'' by game maker [https://ncase.me/ Nicky Case] and musician [https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com/ Monplaisir] is an interactive story about anxiety disorder. The reader / player / user controls the human protagonist's anxiety, personified as a wolf, with the goal to protect the human. This is humorously done with witty, self-referential, on the mark dialogue, lively art and animations and nice sounds. Crucially, as the whole story plays out between characters and axieties, there's no narrator or overarching entity connecting the reader / player / user to the in-fiction narrative. I felt the experience became more intimate this way, as I dared to choose whatever option felt most relevant to me (as encouraged at the start), without fear of self-projected judgement from this ubitutous entity.

			Another reason why this project doesn't need a parser-disguised-as-entity, is because it is not openly explorable. Every once in a whie, there's a limited number of options to choose from. These choices 'don't matter', in the sense that the same story will play out regardless, but choosing one option over another will just show different dialogues. So not a 'pure CYOA' , this optionality still elevates the story in my eyes: again, being able to choose options that resonate make the experience more intimate.

	~~No narrator or terminal~~, but ~~all dialogue~~		This story isn't a 'pure game' either, but it does borrow some elements from games to elevate the experience. It does so 'trivially' like animations and sound effects, and 'non-trivially' with timers and by keeping track of choices.

	~~Very humorous, very meta~~
	~~making lots of references~~ to ~~other media (e.g~~. ~~Pokémon)~~

	~~More than a CYOA story~~
	'trivially', like ~~with~~ animations, sound effects
	and 'non-trivially' with timers, keeping track of choices

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	Some other things I really appreciate in this project:		I like this project a lot. When I first got to know it a few years ago, it was eye-opening to use such a game-adjacent medium to share an intimate and serious topic. Some other things I really appreciate in this project:
	* gender neutral		* The protagonist is gender neutral
	* expected playtime, chapter selection ~~and updates~~ about saving progress		* The expected playtime is shown in the menu, there's a chapter selection a reader / player / user is informed about about saving progress
	* text speed and ~~options~~ to ~~progress~~ text		* There's options to set text speed and preferred way to advance text
	* content warning		* There's a content warning
	* cuss-free mode		* There's a cuss-free mode
	* ~~Tips~~ for mental health and resources		* There's a likt to a page with tips for mental health and resources
	* free to re-use and remix, source code [https://github.com/ncase/anxiety on GitHub]		* It is free to re-use and remix, with the source code available [https://github.com/ncase/anxiety here on GitHub]

Thijshijsijsjss: Create page with incoherent notes and some images

2024-10-18T14:06:43Z

Create page with incoherent notes and some images

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	* play it [https://ncase.me/anxiety/ here]		* play it [https://ncase.me/anxiety/ here]
	[~~notetaking~~ in progress...]


			No narrator or terminal, but all dialogue

			Very humorous, very meta
			making lots of references to other media (e.g. Pokémon)

			More than a CYOA story
			'trivially', like with animations, sound effects
			and 'non-trivially' with timers, keeping track of choices

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			\|[[File:adventures_with_anxiety_screenshot_0.png\|frameless\|200px]]
			\|[[File:adventures_with_anxiety_screenshot_1.png\|frameless\|200px]]
			\|[[File:adventures_with_anxiety_screenshot_2.png\|frameless\|200px]]
			\|[[File:adventures_with_anxiety_screenshot_3.png\|frameless\|200px]]
			\|}

			Some other things I really appreciate in this project:
			* gender neutral
			* expected playtime, chapter selection and updates about saving progress
			* text speed and options to progress text
			* content warning
			* cuss-free mode
			* Tips for mental health and resources
			* free to re-use and remix, source code [https://github.com/ncase/anxiety on GitHub]

Thijshijsijsjss: Create page with link to game

2024-10-18T13:25:21Z

Create page with link to game

New page

* play it [https://ncase.me/anxiety/ here]
[notetaking in progress...]

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