Game Information
| Title | Critical Gameplay: Healer |
| Presenter(s) | Lindsay Grace |
| Session | Conference Reception, Game Exhibition, and Poster Session |
| Time | Thursday, October 21, 7:00p-9:00p |
| Location | East Lansing Technology Innovation Center |
| Format | Game Exhibition |
| Description | Healer is a top down unshooter. Healer inverts our typical relationship to violence as players. Instead of offering the opportunity to re-experience an historical event of violence, the player is given the opportunity to undo them. In Healer, the player must extract bullets from dead victims to undo the tragedy of historical massacres. The soldiers that committed these massacres are still lurking, so the player must work to keep the recently revived alive. The player can put themselves between the bullet and the target or strategize to reverse the tragedy. In its first 10 minutes of gameplay, the player extracts bullets from victims of the highly controversial Nanking Massacre in China. |