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          When I started this project, I intended for it to be able to solve all the problems of inequality and discrimination in the new world. This game was meant to reflect of the flaws that our professor pointed out in that. Empathy is required for social change, and that is something I truly believe. However, not everyone has empathy since it is an emotion. The EC chip was intended to at least show people's experiences to others, with this, I hoped that people would be more understanding and get along. However this game shows how that is problematic.

         Regardless of the fact that people can share experiences with one another, some individuals do not care. Although we do not have the empathy chip in society we have many other ways to express our individual struggles, regardless of our backgrounds. We have film, social media, pictures, music, poetry, books, articles, performance art, painting and much more, that all aim to show problems with structural oppression. Even though all of these things exist in the world that can educate people on the problems we have in society, the problems are still here. The only way to move forward is to keep fighting to equality. 

          As far as the game goes, I wanted to chose some people from diverse backgrounds. I picked people from different ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and economic status. I wanted to present how they would react to not only the idea of a government issued empathy chip, but also how they would react to social situations after being forced to know a little bit about a person's experiences. They experienced an interactive design because they didn't even have to chose to get an empathy chip in the first place, the user can flee. The user can also chose not to stick up for the oppressed, even after hearing some of the stories about the oppressed lives. 

          I drew on the same course readings that I used in the first two projects, but I also made sure each oppressed character was created based off of different readings.