深夜小狗神秘事件
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
游戏设计 Digital Design
2022
Why doing this？
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH ASPERGER'S
I followed my professor to a school in Beijing that provides education and rehabilitation for children of special groups last spring. It started as an illustration for their textbook and was the first time I got to know them.I learned from the parents and teachers that people with Asperger's face many social problems. I want to show a story about their heavy but brave through the game.
我与阿斯伯格的“缘分”
2021年，我跟随学校教授去了北京一所为孤独症儿童提供教育和康复服务的学校。最初我们的课题是为这些孩子上课所需的教材等绘制一些插画。在实地调查的过程中，我从家长和老师那里了解到他们面临很多社会问题，也了解到了阿斯伯格这个群体。
我想通过游戏的方式展示一个关于他们的故事。
Key Features
- Difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication
- Restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour and interests
- Excessive sensitivity or hyposensitivity to environmental stimuli, etc
- 社会交往与语言交流障碍
- 狭隘的兴趣、刻板重复的思维与行为模式
- 对环境刺激表现出过度敏感或低敏等
Test
I asked friends with Asperger's to evaluate the program to ensure it was correct. One of them, Zhang, gave me a lot of feedback and advice on testing. She mentioned that, first of all, she did feel confused when there were too many questions at the same time, that she could not process multiple contents simultaneously and that she could only process them in order. She described her brain as having a DOS system installed and mine as having a WINDOWS system installed. So in the scenario of the police asking questions, she thought that the feeling presented in my project was similar, but the "Blue Screen of Death" of her brain feeling might be more obvious if several people were asking her questions simultaneously. Second, she did feel uncomfortable looking into the eyes of others when interacting with them. She mentioned that besides letting her eyes move around, staring at a specific place, like the other person's tie, was also something she would do. Also, regarding the example of sensory overload in the subway station scene, Zhang said that for her, noise, light, and some fluorescent colors make her feel uncomfortable. Things are not as exaggerated as in my video, but the scenes she describes need to be quantified to make Neurotypical people feel uncomfortable, so how this experimental scene should continue to be refined is open to discussion. Zhang also mentioned that she would wear sunglasses and earplugs to reduce the effects of excessive light and noise and that some movements would have a soothing effect, which she thought should be added. Finally, Zhang mentioned in the character design section that she couldn't directly recognize other people's expressions. Still, she can identify some simple expressions by memorizing features, but she can't understand why I remove characters' facial features. However, another person among the test subjects said that he would have some facial blindness sometimes, and he could get it what I do.In summary, Zhang and others' suggestions were very constructive, and I will further improve this project afterward.