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Be Your Games - How Did You Become Interested in Exploring Death Through Video Games?
Jecoy was created by sabina harrow, and she's now a lecturer at the game design department of opsale university in sweden. And really it's a game that allows you to explore bereavement and feelings of grief and coming to terms with death. Most games trivialize the experience of death by making it a repetitive experience that can be relived over and over again. So what death tells player is that you as an individual have failed. Yet puts the onus on you as the player, saying it is your fault that these things have happened. That really doesn't matter to life.
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