perspective taking

This note last modified February 7, 2022

You can learn about WWI trenches and slavery, but how does it feel to actually live through those events? Games can get us partway to that understanding.

“Games offer an opportunity to not just witness, but also live through and perform the ethical life of another” - Experiencing new ways of being in RPGs

we project our values onto game characters

types of transformation
- experience
target the lenses
- Everything I wrote above I went through rather quickly because this isn’t a note about the minimum wage. This is a note about how to talk to people who have different lenses than you. I think it’s a very odd feeling to make arguments you don’t necessarily believe in, but are effective for your audience. I think it takes a lot of empathy and perspective.
projective identity hypothesis
- Gee 2007, does having an avatar that looks like you help with perspective taking and learning?
perspective taking - race
- perspective taking
Spent Game To Reduce Prejudice Towards The Poor-Roussos
- There is a lot of stigma toward poverty. Games can help, but sometimes the autonomy and perspective taking of games actually increases stigma in people because they assume that impoverished people get given the same autonomy that they received in the game. An example of the backfire
Perspective Taking And Decision Making In Educational Game Play-Hilliard
- Themes: Leadership skills, importance of community, consideration of others, perspective taking
Opera Omnia discussion - spoilers
- All in all, Opera Omnia definitely could have been better, and honestly was a slog to play at times, but I don’t think I’ve seen a game do better at making you take a perspective it wanted you to take.
Mechanic as the Message
- Made a game with her daughter about the emotional aspects of the southwest passage. perspective taking
Experiencing new ways of being in RPGs
- perspective taking
Definition Of Philosophical Game-Gualeni
- games that just do something weird or provide perspective taking