Evanesce
Evanesce is a visual interactive novel, where you play as a nurse that needs to take care of an Alzheimer's patient. He doesn't remember anything, tend to make up things, has unstable emotions, and seems to have been abandoned by his own family. In a dementia-related research, it is acknowledged that laughter can calm the patient's nerves and works as extraneous therapy. Therefore, as a caregiver, you should try to amuse the patient as much as possible. This ties in with the theme "Make Me Laugh". . You can use text or voice message to converse with the patient. Based on how much you care about him and how funny your response was, the patient's emotion may shift radically. Invoking humor in the patient is the key to progress. In this game, the NPC's text will all be AI-generated, and we have set them up to behave as realistically as possible. . The game consists of 5 stages, with a short storyline to better demonstrate the impact of Alzheimer's. It can be played from start to finish with mouse, only using keyboard for texting. We value immersiveness and replayability. Please try out the game yourself, or watch one full playthrough here (note that each individual's experience is different for this game): youtube.com/watch?v=ZgqVW92i3rs.
['Storytelling through audio', 'Lunch Special', 'Perspective', 'Koselig']
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