Discussion Questions: Week 9

This article states that certain video games can be used to help kids with depression, by making them face decisions and make the right choices. Do you think this concept is a good idea or that encouraging depressed children to sit inside and play video games will make their issue worse? Pedercinici made a point that games about certain society issues, such as war, homelessness and gender violence, are being producing by nonprofit organizations instead of people who have actually experienced these kinds of issues directly. Would involvement of these people in the producing of the game better the game enough to make that happen?