The goal of the game is to provide people with the skills to help others that have been victimised without having to ask them every step and put them through more trauma. This will be done by taking the player through several different scenarios where they must try to comfort someone, this is done using dialogue and action options all of which can be used to offer support or comfort in different ways from just being someone to talk to or a shoulder to cry on to just asking them to be involved in other in game tasks that you can do.

The game would have an indicator to show the players whether the actions they are taking are helping, doing nothing or causing distress to the victim.

To achieve this in a realistic and constructive way the game would be designed with the assistance of psychologists that have had experience providing counselling for people who have undergone traumatic events. As well as possible feedback on what people who have survived such situations found to be the best for them.

Overall the game would not be fun to play, but would provide the player with a sense of accomplishment and a sense of capability in the new skills they have learned, hopefully giving them a deeper sense of satisfaction upon completion.

The game would also help to bring these issues out into and allow better discourse about them making it easier for the victims of such attacks to come forward without feeling like they are the ones at fault.

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