Grief (as I Experience it) | Play It!
Game Designer
Undergrad Year 2
2018
Grief (as I experience it) is a conversation card game that facilitates conversations of loss.
- Players select cards from decks named after the “stages of grief” like Pain & Guilt, Depression, Bargaining & Anger, etc.
- Each card has two questions the player can answer aloud or to themselves.
- Play continues until all players have selected and answered 4 cards.
Iterations of Grief (as I experience) Card Game
Grief has undergone a redesign in 2020 to clarify and consolidate the rules and change up the look of the cards.
We moved towards a cyanotype visual concept. My thinking being at times cyanotype can give an air of ghostly images and through it’s process shows us what is left of something we try to capture.
Vian Nguyen
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About Vian Nguyen
Vian is a queer Vietnamese-American game designer and interactive artist. They are interested in game design as a means to facilitate spaces of feeling, self-reflection, and noticing the world around us all. They have a deep curiosity in innovating play’s ability to teach care, empathy, and understanding in players.
They've previously worked at Deck Nine, Harmonix Music Systems, Epic Games, and Filament Games.