Eurogamer interviews long COVID patients and videogame modders about a mod that recreates symptoms of long COVID in popular games to raise awareness.
, might not be obvious to other people, making it harder to claim health insurance, justify time off work, or simply explain to your children why you suddenly need to spend the afternoon in bed.Long COVID Europe
"It's such a great way to get that message across, because you have to experience it yourself," Britt says."Otherwise, you don't know what this is about, and it's difficult to explain. 'Fatigue' sounds a bit vague, and exertional intolerance, where you're simply not able to exercise or push yourself - this is really difficult to get across. And if you have an avatar that is affected by this, it's just a great way to get that across.
The Witcher 3 long COVID mod, devised by Stellar7Project, works with and against the CD Projekt game's role-playing elements in similar ways. Amongst other things, it introduces four exertion stages, with increasingly severe symptoms at each threshold. At stage four, you'll be unable to use Geralt's supernatural Witcher senses and may randomly drop items when accessing your inventory.
Britt agrees that some people might find the concept hard to countenance, but argues that being able to reference the mods in conversation has been liberating for the patients she works with - especially children."I completely see your point, but first of all, we have a lot of kids who are gamers and who are affected by long COVID. And for them, this is the greatest thing - they love it, because they can explain to the guys they're playing with what they're affected by.
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