Video Game Helps Kids Understand Experiences of Peers on the Autism Spectrum
September 4, 2018
By: Jakob Lazzaro
Source: 90.5 WESA, Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station
A new game developed by Carnegie Mellon University students is helping elementary schoolers understand what life is like for kids on the autism spectrum.
Created by the university’s Entertainment Technology Center, Prism uses its animal characters as allegories for the challenges those with autism face.
The game begins in a lush, 3-D forest teeming with animals and scored with whimsical music. Players take on a fox character, and to save your home from a flood, you must work with the other animals to build a dam across the river.