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Depression Quest

by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler

About the Story

"An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment.

This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people.

Official Selection - Indiecade 2013
Winner - Best Narrative Game - Boston FIG
Winner - Best in Category - Mass DiGi
Honorable Mention - Mozilla GameOn Competiton

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v.5: 13-Aug-2025 21:36 - EJ (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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v.4: 11-Feb-2024 07:46 - TestTubeHuman
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v.3: 29-Oct-2020 16:41 - Zape
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v.2: 18-Jan-2014 15:46 - Edward Lacey
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  v.1: 05-Dec-2013 01:17 - Jason McIntosh
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