Narrative and game mechanics in education and wellbeing.
Why is a story retained when a fact is not — and when is a loop a gift rather than a trap?
Disbelief suspended by consent. A fiction you have agreed to is not a lie — and what generative media did to that.
Who holds the goal. Are the mechanics disclosable. Does leaving cost nothing. Then find the one edit at which a mechanic flips.
The same mechanics made extractive, the biases they run on, and where the clinician's boundary sits.
Build it, measure it, then let the players say in their own words what they thought they agreed to.
Students leave with
The mechanic is not the unit of judgement. The consent is.
Fifteen minutes on a call will tell you whether this fits. Syllabus in outcome-based format, facilitator's kit and student handbook on request, with the three project case studies.
Aki Gato aki.gato.art@gmail.com
Suits education, serious games, interaction design, health communication Paper prototypes throughout · no engine prescribed Taught through three built projects