{"id":112020,"date":"2020-04-24T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/361807"},"modified":"2020-04-24T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T17:06:00","slug":"obituary-hellblade-mental-health-consultant-jenny-esson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/obituary-hellblade-mental-health-consultant-jenny-esson\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Hellblade mental health consultant Jenny Esson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Esson, one of the medical professionals who consulted on the development of Ninja Theory&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Hellblade: Senua&#8217;s Sacrifice<\/em>, has passed away from COVID-19 at age 45. The studio <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NinjaTheory\/status\/1253605337929854976?s=20\">noted her passing<\/a> via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Esson worked for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust&#8217;s Recovery College, a facility dedicated to helping patients struggling with mental health when she assisted Ninja Theory in developing <em>Hellblade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2017-12-04-people-of-the-year-2017-ninja-theory\">GamesIndustry.biz<\/a>, Esson explained that &#8220;being involved, especially developing Senua&#8217;s character, has been really important, and being able to bring in my perspective of what I see and what I hear, has been a real privilege.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Esson&#8217;s family praised her strength of character <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-cambridgeshire-52417134\">in a statement to the BBC<\/a>. &#8220;She would set off to change it as many of you in the trust know and have had her in your ear tenaciously driving her ideas forward,&#8221; they stated. &#8220;She hated social injustice and stigmatizing of any kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny Esson, one of the medical professionals who consulted on the development of Ninja Theory&#8217;s&nbsp;Hellblade: Senua&#8217;s Sacrifice, has passed away from COVID-19 at age 45. The studio noted her passing via Twitter. Esson worked for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust&#8217;s Recovery College, a facility dedicated to helping patients struggling with mental health when she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}