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Games that teach with Empathy

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Games that employ empathy to teach better lessons. In this blog, I'm going to talk about empathy in games. Specifically, how they accomplish teaching you through empathy. I hope to inspire game designers to also teach through empathy and give you ideas on how to accomplish this principle. I'll do this by showing you a couple of examples of games in the market as well as some projects that I've made while being at the HKU. I have always been very interested in teaching people something different from games, something that can be very hard to communicate with just words. This has been a recurring theme in most of my projects. Even though I am a game artist, I've always been interested in that type of design in games and made sure that was more to the game than just "fun". This is especially so when you can make a game that people play for fun, but end up learning a whole lot more. There are few articles or lists that put these games together, nor do t...