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This is the final assessment for my certificate in Design communication under the games pathway. We have been given the task of creating a narrative environment to interact with, using all that we’ve learnt this far through our plat forming game which taught us how to make interactive environments and our landscape project to create a environment that tells a story.

For me, I’ve decided to create a story about greif and discrimination since they are topics I am qualified to talk about ad I’ve experienced more than enough of both.

My story is about a world where inhuman beings live alongside humans, these inhumans often face prejudice because of how different they are to humans. I’ve pulled the myth of the Cu Sith, the Scottish spirit hound to act as my medium. Cu Sith are mythic hounds that guard the worlds of life and death, and my main character is a young man named Cailean Mac`dhai. Cailean is a Cu Sith and has a younger sister, father and a mother who passed away at the hands of discrimination. My story will focus on how he’s faced prejudice in his life and the grief of losing his mother because of hate.

The environment I’ll be using is the Mac`Dhai family home, Cailean will navigate the home and interact with items as he reminisces in his childhood and family before and after his mothers passing and also how he’s been a victim of discrimination.

My reason for this is because as someone with a type b personality disorder I’ve always felt different from others and there have been times I’ve been othered because of it. Living with Borderline personality disorder is like living life with different rules and standards, because of that I don’t fit in well, I can be intense, dark and dramatic which makes me feel like I’m not human a lot of the time. I grew up loving myths and legends because they often made me feel normal.

The grief aspect comes from learning how to live with the knowledge that my mother has a terminal illness, and knowing that because of circumstances she won’t live to see many things in my life and won’t always be there for me. When my family learned of this we had to process and more or less go through the stages of greif pre-emptively because of this. I have also lost a family member suddenly to suicide and had to process that quickly when I didn’t expect it.

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