Obviously I'm clearly not a Japanese high school student who got stabbed by a mugger and woke up in the world of a JRPG, but when I discovered gamification and appropriate mobile apps like LifeRPG, that's when the creativity started flowing.
Anyone who has watched anime at some point has probably stumbled across one named "That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime" and if you've watched it, you've probably noticed that our favorite slime boi has used his little noggin to access a computerized, game-like interface to invoke things like magick or special abilities he knows, what level he or someone else is, what he's carrying among other things, and then I found more anime that followed this "isekai" formula, which of course fired the creative neurons and got me thinking "hey, even though there's game logic being part of the world, everyone still feels and reacts to thinks like getting wounded or sick, and there are still human or at least human-like emotions and thoughts between everyone, the game engine is just how they process thought"
In case you can't quite notice it yet, the pattern here is that the JRPG engine is powered by people's thoughts. Not everyone always sees it or notices it but its still there and it seems to always know what to do with itself. And the people and monsters in the world including little Rimuru (the slime in question) all accept it. They don't fear it, and they know it can't hurt them. It's just their minds being visibly projected in front of them so they can organize their thoughts.
Is it so wrong to organize one thoughts in such a way? Maybe not, sure it's probably prone, in real life, to make someone look a little loopy if another individual didn't know someone doing this was autistic or even some other condition, but it's not like they're trying to make others do the same. At least I wouldn't.
This is a perfect example of advanced gamification and how it can greatly assist autistic people with everyday life. It doesn't have to be done out loud. It just needs to be built and understood, polished and refined. It takes time, but maybe if we all did this in our own creative way, life would be a lot easier to figure out.
After all, I didn't become a Support role for nothing
Anyone who has watched anime at some point has probably stumbled across one named "That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime" and if you've watched it, you've probably noticed that our favorite slime boi has used his little noggin to access a computerized, game-like interface to invoke things like magick or special abilities he knows, what level he or someone else is, what he's carrying among other things, and then I found more anime that followed this "isekai" formula, which of course fired the creative neurons and got me thinking "hey, even though there's game logic being part of the world, everyone still feels and reacts to thinks like getting wounded or sick, and there are still human or at least human-like emotions and thoughts between everyone, the game engine is just how they process thought"
In case you can't quite notice it yet, the pattern here is that the JRPG engine is powered by people's thoughts. Not everyone always sees it or notices it but its still there and it seems to always know what to do with itself. And the people and monsters in the world including little Rimuru (the slime in question) all accept it. They don't fear it, and they know it can't hurt them. It's just their minds being visibly projected in front of them so they can organize their thoughts.
Is it so wrong to organize one thoughts in such a way? Maybe not, sure it's probably prone, in real life, to make someone look a little loopy if another individual didn't know someone doing this was autistic or even some other condition, but it's not like they're trying to make others do the same. At least I wouldn't.
This is a perfect example of advanced gamification and how it can greatly assist autistic people with everyday life. It doesn't have to be done out loud. It just needs to be built and understood, polished and refined. It takes time, but maybe if we all did this in our own creative way, life would be a lot easier to figure out.
After all, I didn't become a Support role for nothing
