Hellblade studio Ninja Theory's new project explores mental health through video games
The Insight Project aims to explore menta💃l health throug🦹h game design and neuroscience

The studio behind 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has launched the Insight Project, an "experimental and exploratory project" that aims to explore mental health concerns through the use of ꦬgame design, technology, and clinical neuroscience. Ninja Theory officially announced the launch of the project with a video🌌 explaining how and why the project aims to "deliver a mainstream solution to help treat mental suffering and encourage mental wellbeing."
Hellblade puts players in the shoes of Senua who experiences psychosis. In order to accurately and respectfully portray Senua's mental state, Ninja Theory consulted Paul Fletcher, a Cambridge University professor of health neuroscience. Fletcher is develop🍃ing the project alongside Ninja Theory.
"The Insight Project is a rare example of artists, scientists ༒and mental health professionals coming together," Ninja Theory's co-founder and cr♋eative director Tameem Antoniades explains, "to tackle one of the most pressing challenges of our time: mental suffering."
Fletcher explains that the project is asking a question, "could we combine the best of game design a🐟nd technology with cutting edge clinical neuroscience and psyc💙hiatry to help with mental suffering and promote mental wellbeing?"
The project will take shape over sev𒐪eral years, but as the website states, it has been announced early "to encourage an open and transparent approach to its🐈 development."
Due to the immersive nature of games and the ever advancing way in which game deve☂lopers can use technology to create realistic experiences, the Insight Project believes video games have huge potential to help people in ways that have yet to be explored.
"ꩲThey [games] provide compelling and absorbing narratives within immersive settings that can be tailored to respond flexibly and sensitively to the individual abil🙈ities and demands of those who play them," the states.
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Ninja Theory was acquired by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft back in 2018, and head of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty say𝕴s, "the insight project is a great example of the power of games to be a force for good."
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