Initial problem statement and essential experience can be found here.

What did I make alterations?

Following my 3 game ideas presentation, I had a lot of conversations with people in my class and it seemed to be a common theme that they feel as I’m forcing the mechanic of ‘drawing’ into my game ideas because of my cognitive behavioural art therapy (CBAT) theme. Originally, I moved from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to CBAT because I was finding it difficult to make game ideas fun and interactive, which was a goal of mine. My plan was to use these art-therapy adaptions below e.g. ‘draw problematic situations’ to drive the gameplay:

However, after selecting the game idea I wanted to take forward (which can be found here), I talked to Emma and managed to create a solid game idea foundation that doesn’t directly focus on integrating CBAT techniques (which can be found here). Instead, it looks at a general therapy-like experience. I decided to drop the emphasis of art, though there is still opportunity to incorporate creativity within the game.

Because of this decision, I now have to revise my problem statement and essential experience as they were bot written around CBAT.

Initial Problem Statement

How can the methods and teachings of CBAT be used in a game?

Important things to consider:

• A range of different CBAT methods and teachings
• An appropriate game platform
• Balancing between information and gameplay
• Keeping the player engaged (rewards system?)
• An appropriate game genre

Revised Problem Statement

I took some time to look at my original statement and quickly brainstormed some ideas about how I could change it.