{"id":9681,"date":"2023-04-19T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/a-space-to-feel-at-ease-with-dying-how-video-games-help-people-through-grief\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:37:52","slug":"a-space-to-feel-at-ease-with-dying-how-video-games-help-people-through-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/a-space-to-feel-at-ease-with-dying-how-video-games-help-people-through-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A space to feel at ease with dying\u2019: how video games help people through grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players have long found a refuge from grief in video games \u2013 and a recent wave of games is tackling this difficult theme head-on<\/p>\n<p>When James\u2019s father died, he did what any of us would do in the throes of grief: he sought comfort. He went looking for it in the expected places \u2013 friends, family \u2013 but he found it somewhere unexpected: in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDad had always loved games. He gave me his NES when he got the SNES, and my formative memories were playing Mario Kart 64 with him, my uncle, and my little sister. Shortly after my father passed, the Wii added some N64 games to its catalogue that I had loved to play growing up, and that started the journey I needed to take to forgive him,\u201d says James. \u201cI had felt abandoned by him \u2013 when I was right at the shifting point of puberty, about to learn how to drive, he just wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/apr\/19\/how-video-games-help-people-through-grief\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4e3ef8c25c8de5f8be398ac55c714ef4d3a5a1ae\/105_0_2661_1598\/master\/2661.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6d535529f218f62bc3713d78754d3c80\" title=\"\u2018A space to feel at ease with dying\u2019: how video games help people through grief\" \/>Players have long found a refuge from grief in video games \u2013 and a recent wave of games is tackling this difficult theme head-on<br \/>\nWhen James\u2019s father died, he did what any of us would do in the throes of grief: he sought comfort. He went looking for it in the expected places \u2013 friends, family \u2013 but he found it somewhere unexpected: in the video game The Legend of Zelda: Majora\u2019s Mask.<br \/>\n\u201cDad had always loved games. He gave me his NES when he got the SNES, and my formative memories were playing Mario Kart 64 with him, my uncle, and my little sister. Shortly after my father passed, the Wii added some N64 games to its catalogue that I had loved to play growing up, and that started the journey I needed to take to forgive him,\u201d says James. \u201cI had felt abandoned by him \u2013 when I was right at the shifting point of puberty, about to learn how to drive, he just wasn\u2019t there. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players have long found a refuge from grief in video games \u2013 and a recent wave of games is tackling this difficult theme head-on When James\u2019s father died, he did what any of us would do in the throes of grief: he sought comfort. He went looking for it in the expected places \u2013 friends, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/a-space-to-feel-at-ease-with-dying-how-video-games-help-people-through-grief\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018A space to feel at ease with dying\u2019: how video games help people through grief<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}