Game Therapy - Tiny mood swings in my life
Data Visualization Design
Year of Completion
Winter 2023
Supervising Professor
Holly Quarzo
Why did I create this design?
As an emotionally stable and rational person, I don't have major mood swings about most things in my life. I am mostly emotionally calm, except when I am tired because of stress. From time to time, I find life boring. But in the last year, I started getting into computer games and they have made a huge difference in my life. I can experience emotions in games that I cannot experience in my daily life. The infographic shows what I did in the game, Terraria, and how it affected my mood.
These days, our lives are becoming more and more fast-paced and people are living under pressure which causes stress. Each day has a similar pattern which makes life dull. However, video games can bring brand-new experiences to people that make up for the shortcomings and flaws of the real world. Video games can help release our stress and energize our mundane life by providing excitement and relaxation. We experience emotions in games that we cannot in our daily life. Through this data visualization, you can discover how games bring us relaxation from the real world and how they cause mood swings.
If you want to learn the details about a certain day, you can click on each line/each block to enter the page about that day.
You can drag the character to see my journey in the game.
