{"id":50086,"date":"2018-09-24T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327166"},"modified":"2018-09-24T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:11:00","slug":"video-psychosis-and-the-making-of-hellblade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/24\/video-psychosis-and-the-making-of-hellblade\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Psychosis and the making of Hellblade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2018\u00a0talk, Ninja Theory&#8217;s Dominic Matthews and Tameem Antoniades discuss the delivery of the mental health themes in <em>Hellblade: Senua&#8217;s Sacrifice<\/em>, with a particular focus on the team&#8217;s approach to researching and collaborating around the subject of psychosis.<\/p>\n<p>The two go over how a small team of 20 delivered\u00a0a triple-A quality game striving\u00a0to push the boundaries of narrative within gaming, especially when it came to the delivery of mental health themes in order to deliver a compelling and thoughtful depiction.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an insightful talk that&#8217;s definitely worth watching, so developers\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t miss the\u00a0opportunity to do so now that it&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/y2f_VjtNfLw\"> freely available on the official GDC YouTube channel<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/contact_us.php\">contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent company Informa.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2018\u00a0talk, Ninja Theory&#8217;s Dominic Matthews and Tameem Antoniades discuss the delivery of the mental health themes in Hellblade: Senua&#8217;s Sacrifice, with a particular focus on the team&#8217;s approach to researching and collaborating around the subject of psychosis. The two go over how a small team of 20 delivered\u00a0a triple-A quality game striving\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50086","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\/50086","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=50086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}