How Video Games Create Empathy | Hellblade , Nier:Automata and Empathy in Game Design
Channel: The Game Overanalyser
Date: 2019-12-20

This Video Analyses How Video Games Create Empathy, and uses examples like Hellblade, Nier:Automata and Celeste to illustrate the Power of Interactivity in creating Love and Compassion. We analyze how Game Designers use systems, mechanics and avatars to project players into new roles and to care for others, and why Games are uniquely situated to do this.

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Video games are a powerful vehicle for eliciting empathy,love and compassion, but our medium has very rarely explored this emotional range. Recently though, a broader array of emotions is being explored, and we now have games that demonstrate these abilities. In this Video, we create a framework to analyze empathy in games, the empathic circle, a combination of the magic circle and the expanding circle, and show how games can engender selflessness. 

Games that are analyzed include, Hellblade, Nier automata, The last of us, Ico, the last guardian, Papers please, cart life, This war of mine, papers please, papo and yo, bound, that dragon cancer, dys4ia, florence, celeste, flower, everything, train, september 12, peacemaker, the last of us left behind, assassins creed liberation, mafia 3, journey, call of duty, ultima, everquest. Gone Home, Never Alone. celeste, Hellblade 2

Sources

-Hellblade Gdc Breaking Through 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2f_VjtNfLw

-The Neuroevolution of empathy 
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06027.x

-Two systems for empathy
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/132/3/617/336907

-Against Empathy, Paul Bloom

-Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga

-Free to Learn , Peter Gray

-Children and Play,  George Eisen

-The Expanding Circle , Peter SInger

- GDC Papa and Yo 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwwLYgv_7QA

-Gdc That Dragon Cancer 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ecc1WIBRg

-Gdc Bound 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PguaPxGC86Y

-Anna Anthropy, Rise of the video Game zinesters

-Bonnie Ruberg How Video Games have always been Queer

- The Proteus Paradox, Nick Yee

- Embodiment of avatars 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321200369X?via%3Dihub

- Relationship between avatar and self
https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/352/263

-Creating Strong Video game Characters Jeremy Bernstein 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mgK2hL33Vw

-Gdc Mafia 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cyvUarTMnA

-Assassins Creed Liberation History Respawned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJzj9g5HNI

-Gdc Engines of play
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg2GndSat1E

- Nier Automata Gdc 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKbH9i5axxU

-Yoko Taro Gdc 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO_d3fwTNPo

-Heroes, Scott Alison 

-Machine to be another 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wk489deqAQ

-Small Worlds Project 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gbgPHCnKIQ

-The Game Overanalyser