Split Mind (JoakimCarlsen)

Split Mind is a first-person narrative game about the experience of living with schizophrenia, and is a small portrait of actual personal experiences. You play as a person with schizophrenia, going through a psychotic episode, over the course 4 days. Each day you will have to go through a series of everyday tasks, which progressively become more difficult to complete as the psychosis develops and starts to disrupt your grasp on reality.

 The game has been designed in collaboration with my girlfriend, Mette Nonboe Frederiksen, who herself has struggled with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Her experiences, together with extensive research and interviews with others with lived experiences, has assisted in the depictions in this game.

Created by:

Joakim Carlsen - Game Design, Narrative and Art

Mette Nonboe Frederiksen - Narrative & Subject Matter Expert

Patrick Svaneberg Vejen - Sound Designer

If you would like to find out more about schizophrenia, psychosis or mental health difficulties visit: CheckPointOrg.com and SANE.org