Single Mothers and their Daughters!
Draft 1
Game description:
The aim of the game is to highlight the stories behind closed doors. Briefly providing scenarios from the real life of a single mother and her daughter, this game allows the players to get the chance to put themselves in both the mother and daughter’s shoes. These small families go through a lot together, which no one knows of, so the main objective is to take the player deeper into and closer to their day-to-day lives.
Not Made to be Subtle 
October 31, 2019 at 12:15 pm
when I clicked on the game, it said “Resource unavailable”
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November 1, 2019 at 8:32 am
It’s fixed! Sorry for that. I would love it if you try it out!
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November 1, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Overall, I really like the concept of the game and drawing out the experiences and challenges faced by daughter and mother.
I do have some feedback on some of the questions and aspects of the game that I hope can help.
“When you take her to the doctor you learn that your daughter was in shock, as she never new what a father is. It took her hair 6 months to grow back. Her hair only grew back when she got used to the idea of being raised without a father figure.”
This seems problematic in that it’s unclear that children “know” they should be raised by two parents and ample single parents raise children without problems. Also, it seems like the doctor would need to do various tests in order to come to this determinate–it would not be a single trip. If this is based upon a real case, I would encourage citing that case and if not, I might research further to determine if this a legitimate possibility (hairloss from shock from a toddler).
“He is not certain why you are the one answering the phone, he tells you he wants to say happy birthday, so you put him on speaker as he talks to your daughter. She answers the phone, he talks to her for a few minutes. Then, he asks her “do you have a boyfriend now?” Your daughter gives you the phone and tells you daddy is asking if I have a boyfriend”
It’s unclear why the daughter is saying what the daddy is saying since the phone is on speaker so they both know what he said.
“Your daughter benefits from the independent life for a year. Yet you miss her, you can’t live without her so you decide to bring her back, delaying her graduation for a semester and creating some problems between you two.”
My old question here is that in the game, you aren’t giving the players any agency around how they feel or how they act in relation to that feeling in this question. It probably should be a decision point whether to bring her back or not. Also, I just wonder how much the game communicates a helplessness around being a mother in the idea that “you can’t live without her”–when she is at school.
“You’re 17 years old, you just graduated from school and it’s your first year in uni. Your mom has been financially sufficient throughout your school years (very expensive school) and will also be paying for uni (also very expensive). You see an ad on Facebook that says there is a part-time paid-job opportunity for school-grads to work as tutors for youngsters. You decide to apply for the job.. You’re accepted *”
These two answers don’t seem mutually exclusive. The player can tell her mom and take the job. That is, you would need to make it explicit that she doesn’t take the job.
For the daughter, it seems like no matter the answer–all works out and it feels imbalanced to what the mother has to confront. Is that intentional? As a player, it seems strange that the mother can’t seem to get a break but the daughter is given all the breaks?
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November 3, 2019 at 8:02 pm
Great work Nada! Love that this is both from the mom and daughter’s perspectives. I do think that the diagnosis of hair loss was very confusing. I would elaborate more on that. #unboundeq
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