This Game gives your Phone to a Refugee | "Bury Me My Love" ⛺️
❤️📱⛺ Empathy for the Refugee in "Bury Me My Love" ⛺📱❤️
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“Bury Me My Love” is a mobile game that firmly plants you in the role of a refugee during the European migrant crisis. Using skeuomorphism and a diegetic user-interface, it allows the player to experience unfamiliar situations and struggles through a familiar frame. Paired with a real-time mode, the game reserves a portion of your mental bandwidth even when you’re not playing it. BMML asks you to reconsider your privilege by equipping you with tools and apps you’re already used to using, but asking to solve much more pressing problems with them and develop empathy for those whose reality this fiction is based on.
Timestamps:
❤️ Intro to Bury Me My Love (0:00)
🖲️ What are Diegetic and Skeuomorphic Interfaces? (1:07)
📲 BMML’s Mobile Phone Interface (6:22 )
⛺ Failure and Difficulty (11:10)
🚢 “That’s The Point” (15:18)
💬 How and Why the UI develops Empathy (20:23)
🌎 The World on Refugees (28:17)
⛏️ Lasting Impacts (31:17)
💔 Parallels and Empathy Crisis (37:13)
🥿 Closing and Call to Action (40:24)
🙌 Endscreen and Fundraiser Info (41:12)
UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) fundraiser:
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Canadian Museum of Immigration fundraiser:
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• "Bury Me My Love" extended endscreen and f...
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