What is the essential experience I want to provide?

As expressed throughout my research, my intentions are to create a game that will provide a multi-sensory experience with the function of regulating both mental and physical symptoms of stress and anxiety. In my research, my main point of focus was exploring how sense and stimulation can provide the experience of immersion as a tool for emotional regulation. Now I am beginning phase three of the project, it is time to start thinking about how I can make this happen.

To begin planning the essential experience I wish to provide through my game creation, Emilia and I have created a mind-map to document our shared ideas of action and topics to explore. We have split the problem into three main questions:

• What experience we want the player to have?
• What is essential to this experience?
• How can we capture that essence?

The intention of this activity is to make clear our shared intentions for this project, for what we want the players to experience, and what we need to do to achieve that.

Collaborative task with Emilia - Essential Experience Mind-Map

What experience do we want the player to have?

• Beginning the experience curious and intrigued
• Engage in the stunning visuals and audio
• Feel immersed and stimulated
• Interact through both body and mind
• Feel and think deeply
• Take a moment for self-reflection and focus
• Leave the experience refreshed, with a new and positive outlook