Playful Resilience: Empowering Recovery through Autobiographical Game-Based Storytelling in the O...
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Community-engaged game jams recruit 21 adults across three events in Brantford and Hamilton to make autobiographical games with Scratch, Twine, Bitsy; participants produce five Twine and six Scratch prototypes across jams, using maze metaphors, environmental decision branches and compact playable mementos. Results show games elicit narrative sense-making, build resilience, invoke morality/religion themes and reduced social isolation, while authors note no clinical efficacy claims and logistical challenges running jams with vulnerable populations.
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