Spreading awareness on anxiety disorder through narrative gameplay

Chen, Jia Zian (2023) Spreading awareness on anxiety disorder through narrative gameplay. Project Report. Melaka, Malaysia, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This project is a first-person 3D narrative game that shows the experience of a student that has anxiety disorder. The problem that provided inspiration to develop such game is the lack of existing games that is on the market that perfectly depicts the feel and experience of anxiety disorder. Other than that, mental issues such as anxiety disorders in university students are not being acknowledged or payed attention to by people that surrounds them in their daily life. The aim of this project is to allow the mass-popular understand the roots of causing anxiety disorder and through the game they can identify the symptoms of anxiety disorder in an early stage and provide help to their friends or loved ones. There are three objectives that this project is trying to achieve, the first is to study the implementation of anxiety disorder into games through narration. The second objective is to develop a game about anxiety disorder in university students to increase the awareness of students. The last objective is to analyze the usability of a game in terms of spreading awareness and convey messages about anxiety to public. The expert review shows that the game gives out an experience of anxious and immersive which has achieved the initial goal of this project. The system usability survey also shows that 52% of the respondents agree that the game is easy to understand and 68% for various functions were well integrated into the game. Based on these result, a game about anxiety disorder is successfully developed to raise awareness on anxiety disorder.

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