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First Person Mental Illness: Digitale Geisteskrankheit als immersive Selbsterfahrung

Author(s): Runzheimer, Bernhard

Abstract

This article examines the increasing ludic implementation of mental illnesses in digital games. It especially focuses on display techniques and the benefits and drawbacks of games that utilize a first- or third-person view to immerse the player into the mental illnesses of their protagonists. This sort of player involvement marks a new trend that can be observed in recent games and will play an important role in future game development. Instead of merely stigmatizing the mentally ill as evil antagonists, head-mounted virtual reality displays like the Oculus Rift are able to simulate their perception and thus create a form of self-awareness for the player. LAYERS OF FEAR (2016) and SENUA'S SACRIFICE (2017) are used as case examples.

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Runzheimer, Bernhard: First Person Mental Illness: Digitale Geisteskrankheit als immersive Selbsterfahrung. In: Görgen, Arno;Simond, Stefan Heinrich: Krankheit in Digitalen Spielen. Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen. Bielefeld: transcript 2020, S. 145-162. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14978.
@INCOLLECTION{Runzheimer2020,
 author = {Runzheimer, Bernhard},
 title = {First Person Mental Illness: Digitale Geisteskrankheit als immersive Selbsterfahrung},
 year = 2020,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14978}",
 editor = {Görgen, Arno and Simond, Stefan Heinrich},
 address = {Bielefeld},
 booktitle = {Krankheit in Digitalen Spielen. Interdisziplinäre Betrachtungen},
 pages = {145--162},
 publisher = {transcript},
}
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