Balance It Out

This game was created by Luke Amer and Abigail Martin. Luke is a games programmer, who found moving to university a difficult experience on his emotional wellbeing, which inspired us to design the game around Sam's experience as she moves to university. Abigail is a Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse in the NHS, using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to support  children and young people experiencing emotional difficulties.  Abigail also has lived experience of mental illness and with Luke aimed to create a game that would support both herself and the children and young people she works with to balance it out. 

Our plan for Balance It Out is to create a number of games which are both fun and explore a multitude of common life challenges that can impact our emotional wellbeing. With the goal to teach the player further therapeutic skills that they can apply to their own daily lives. 

Balance it Out was created within 3 weeks for the first annual Mental Health Game Jam, hosted by Global Game Jam and DeepWell DTX. 

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