JOY CHEN

HOW TO DiSSOCiATE

How to Dissociate is a photo-animation interactive story game that takes a deeper dive into the nuances of dissociative episodes. Told through self-portraiture, this piece aims to identify what it means to reclaim oneself. How do you fly close to the sun without burning? How do you exist in spaces that once felt safe, but no longer are? How do you become comfortable within your own body again?

Each choice you make leads you to a different scene, but the overall outcome is the same. By giving the player autonomy/free will to make their own choices, it forces you to realize that you can’t always control when an episode occurs. You can make all the right choices, but it still happens. It isn’t always up to us.

Playable on Windows and Mac: https://byjoychen.itch.io/how-to-dissociate

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JOY CHEN

Joy Chen is a multi-disciplinary designer studying in the Design | Media Arts program at UCLA. She is interested in the intersection of technology and design, as it relates with empathy, people, and innovation. She is interested in opportunities relating to fashion, beauty, and design agencies.