Dyspraxia in Game Design: portraying personal experiences through game systems
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Ben Wilson, Die Gute Fabrik. A talk about how Ben’s personal experiences with Developmental Coordination Disorder (aka Dyspraxia) have influenced his games and approach to game design. Over the last few years, he has made several small games that explore the idea of evoking how it feels to be Dyspraxic.
He wants to offer an alternative approach to expressing personal experiences through games; there have been talks that address this from the angle of storytelling and narrative design, but there’s not much out there that talks about designing game systems and mechanics that are expressive in the same way.
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