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Aphantasia, Lacking a Visual Imagination, and Video Games - Access-Ability (@AccessAbilityVG) (Patreon)

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2021-01-15 15:32:03
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2023-12

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For gamers like myself with aphantasia, a lack of visual imagination,  games like Carrion that rely on building a mental picture of the map can  get pretty difficult to play.

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Aphantasia, No Visual Imagination, and Video Games - Access-Ability

For gamers like myself with aphantasia, a lack of visual imagination, games like Carrion that rely on building a mental picture of the map can get pretty difficult to play. Edited by Jane Aerith Magnet. "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

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Anonymous

Very interesting stuff! I’m 36 and just found out less than a year ago that aphantasia is an actual thing. I had realised in my conversations with other people that others can form mental images while I cannot, but thought it was just one of those weird quirks I had. It was pretty amazing to find out that it’s an actual thing with considerable number of people in the same boat. And this video was the first time I had even considered that it could affect my ability toplace myself on a map on a game world, but now that you laid it out it makes so much sense. I get lost in games all the time, but again just thought it was what everyone did and it was a feature of the games. Always wondered why that was so popular in game design...

Anonymous

Like Laura, I also always assumed the when people talked about picturing things in their they were talking figuratively. It was only at the start of last year that I discovered people could see images in their head. My sister and I were talking in Ikea and put two and two together (we both have aphantasia it turns out) Given that I am almost 40 and only recently discovered this, I would be willing to bet that more than 1% of people have it, they just don't know. It certainly explains why sometimes when my wife and I watch a film adapted from a book that we have both read, she complains that characters don't look how she imagined - I obviously don't have that problem! Also, I have always found that I have excellent visual recognition of faces I have seen before, but I struggle to put names to those faces and now I wonder if that is the result of my aphantasia.