The video games mental health charity Safe In Our World is launching the first Mental Health Game Dev Champions event, aimed at empowering gamers and developers to create intimate and personal video games based on real lived-in experiences.
Game Dev Champions is a worldwide event, encouraging entries from a variety of ages, skills, and diverse backgrounds.
Games are an amazing vehicle to express the difficult and often emotional mental health journey, that people face almost on a daily basis. Through this initiative, and by sharing these experiences, it ensures the creators that their voice is being heard; and for the players, to sample the journey that many people go through, more than often silently.
The event will be judged by an esteemed panel, and winners will receive a selection of prizes provided by our sponsors, that will help gamers develop a career or deeper interest in video game development.
This community channel is for people competing in the Mental Health Game Dev Champions competition, a safe space to discuss and ask questions and to assist each other in creating your stories.
1 - Try to stick to the relevant discussions and look for open discussions on the same topic before creating a new one.
2 - We do not tolerate hate speech of any kind. Be kind to each other.
3 - No sexual, violent or political content is appropriate - we want a clean and positive room.
4 - Be kind to yourself and others, self-care is massively important and we encourage it!
As a Mental Health Charity we must also highlight that this server is not run by any medical staff or qualified mental health staff. If you need help you can follow this link that provides helplines from around the world. https://safeinourworld.org/find-help/