Episode 98: Treating Through Play: A Conversation With Philippe A. Ménard

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This week, we talked games and mental illness with Philippe A. Ménard, a scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal, among other things, who recently held forth on anxiety and depression in gamers at PAX East. Phil snarked back with the best of us and managed to keep a heavy subject fairly light, and we even managed to stay on topic most of the time, which is rare. Plus, we learned that random NPC chatter that adds to the narrative (“barks”) are these days referred to as “arrow-to-the-knee” stories, and if that doesn’t make your whole damned day, I just don’t know what to tell you.

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What We Played

Phil: