Relationships in Digital MediaMain MenuWorks Cited(Mica Murdoch, Reid Jaeger, Brandon Semenec) MLA citations for all referenced worksTable of Contents(Reid Jaeger, Mica Murdoch, Brandon Semenec) Everything we have to offerMica Murdoch1d2f2ac481d04f99b5a30f8c23d6dab3f497cb8dReid Jaegera4c80949217213da9945a2de14bd32a7e2b34e9fBrandon Semenecfce94531b57d4d881c6875e51373879a84f12141
Violent Beginnings
12023-12-08T01:59:13+00:00Mica Murdoch1d2f2ac481d04f99b5a30f8c23d6dab3f497cb8d1913Mica Murdochplain2023-12-08T17:19:12+00:00Mica Murdoch1d2f2ac481d04f99b5a30f8c23d6dab3f497cb8dEverything seems dark and chaotic. The background is dark, shifting and dynamic, but all is monochrome, except for the player character, the anxiety, who appears in bright red, and the health bars of the anxiety and its human. The anxiety wolf dominates the screen, and its human. You enter the scene as a coat for your human, enveloping them, keeping them bent over. You take away their health bar until only your redness remains on screen. The dialogue you control is represented in black, darkening the human’s white text. On video games’ visual storytelling, Nguyen writes in their work “Mindspaces: The Mind as a Visual and Ludic Artifact” that “It is no secret that media like film and video games can tell stories and express feelings and thoughts through methods other than text and dialogue…It is hard to overstate the importance of space in non-verbal storytelling.” Nguyen describes how the space created within the screen is a reflection of the thoughts of the player character. This effect creates an atmosphere for the player and deepens the emotional narrative of the game. In Adventures with Anxiety, the background is this space. It may appear dark, cluttered or chaotic, as the human feels gripped by anxiety. The space is filled and blocked out by the anxiety’s shouting blocks of text. The human and the anxiety are in total conflict. In controlling the anxiety, the player is able to grasp the range of damages that anxiety can do to a person, in a small, fictional dose.
12023-12-07T21:45:05+00:00Mica Murdoch1d2f2ac481d04f99b5a30f8c23d6dab3f497cb8dIntroduction to Adventures With AnxietyMica Murdoch5Mica Murdochplain2023-12-08T02:01:11+00:00Mica Murdoch1d2f2ac481d04f99b5a30f8c23d6dab3f497cb8d
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12023-12-07T23:57:54+00:00mica AwA Initial1The end of the first fight in Adventures with Anxietyplain2023-12-07T23:57:54+00:00