Digital Humanities student Adeline Piercy publishes video essay on NiCHE website

Adeline Piercy (Digital Humanities student) published a video essay, "Controlling Catastrophe: Indoor Gameplay to Support Sensory Dysfunction", on the NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment | Nouvelle initiative Canadienne en histoire de l'environnement) website.

Frostpunk is a post-apocalyptic survival city-building game. In the game, players lead a dystopian community through unrelenting cold. Adeline K. Piercy’s video essay examines the unanticipated ways Frostpunk serves as a strategy for neurodivergent players with sensory dysfunctions — particularly those who struggle with the heat of summertime. This is the seventh article in the "Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors" series, which explores the ways that board games, video games, and other types of indoor play impact and guide our understanding of the environment.