Making Before I Forget (A Game About Dementia) - 3-Fold Games' Claire Morwood & Chella Ramanan
11What goes into making a game about dementia? What game design challenges did the developers endure in making a game where you play as a woman who forgets?
In this interview, we sit down with Claire Morwood and Chella Ramanan of 3-Fold Games and talk all about the making of their impactful game, Before I Forget, a game about a woman with early-onset dementia. Hear directly from the creators of the game about how they used the immersive medium of videogames to delicately and accurately portray the important topic of dementia.
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🕘Timestamps:
00:00:27 - Housekeeping
00:1:10 - Interview Start
00:2:36 - Where did the idea to make a game about dementia originate from?
00:10:20 - Did you draw on any inspirations, from books, movies, or your own life, to help accurately represent a character living with dementia?
00:13:17 - Consulting medical professionals
00:14:26 -Did any of the feedback you received from the medical professionals surprise you?
00:15:55 - What was it about the medium of video games that you felt was best deserving of Sunita's story?
00:20:00 - Does the term videogame still fit in 2020?
00:23:41 -Using art design and the environment to tell the story of a woman with dementia
00:28:20 - How did you use music to portray how Sunita's memories come back to her? How did the soundtrack come to be?
00:30:48 -SPOILER TERRITORY
Let's talk about that end scene.
00:35:45 -Why was Sunita seeing a Black Hole on her rug?
00:39:43 -Is Sunita's dementia a blessing?
00:42:30 -The bathroom scene
00:49:00 - Where to get the game, and how to support alzheimers research
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