Shadow's Edge vs REThink Game

"Really Eye Opening. This game has a pretty unique story in which you go to fill a dark, gray world with talent and color once again with your own masterpieces. The writing in the black journal gives you a place to quickly reflect on all sorts of different types of personal feelings, all in your pocket or bag. I enjoy my time with this app, and I hope to find more like it!" – Player testimonial "A wonderful app! There is something so therapeutic to me about being ‘creatively destructive’ and this is a perfect outlet for that!”⁠ – Player testimonial "I love this game, I like writing a diary and this is such a fun way of doing it. The questions are really helpful." – Player testimonial More than 10 awards and nominations including: Edison’s New Product Innovation, Serious Play Gold Medal and the Global Mobile Award for Enhancing Kid’s Lives. Life can get challenging at times, to say the least. Between school, work, and relationships, it’s easy to let our emotional needs take the back seat... But what if taking care of our emotional health could be fun like a video game? Discover a safe space entirely for you in the world of Shadow’s Edge! Vent it all out in your own private journal, unlock yourself through art and writing, and join a supportive and creative in-game community where we support each other through the tough times. And not only do you get to level up your self-care game, but Shadow’s Edge is the only mental health game where you can bring life back to a storm-wrecked city and defeat your personal shadows by solving puzzles at the same time! Features: - Story driven casual and creativity game. - Writing prompts based on narrative therapy and positive psychology. - Collect colors, stickers, stencils and player titles to build power. - Help Ty, the angry one, Maize, who's got an artistic block and Pax who sees no problem in anything to overcome their Shadow. - Get support from Phoenix, the wise pigeon along the way with exercises to relax and destress. - Easy to learn. - In-game art exchange "Shadowgram" Shadow's Edge is an ad-free game with no in-app purchases. A project developed by The Digging Deep Project, an award-winning small nonprofit with a mission to create mental health tools that are based on expression, psychology and gaming. If you have suggestions or opinions - say hello to us at: feedback@shadowsedgegame

REThink is taking care of the emotional health of each child and coaches her/his emotional skills while having fun. It builds the essential emotional skills for being happy and successful in life. REThink is a therapeutic game that uses psychological science to help children find their superhero emotional strengths! The game is based on the Retman character, which is belonging to tested packages of cognitive-behavioral therapy for promoting child and adolescent mental health (i.e., Rational Emotive Behavioral Education, REBT, Ellis, 1956; rational stories and therapeutic cartoons). The game has seven levels that take place in different territories on Earth, that are under the power of Irrationalizer and need to be conquered back from the bad mind, and at the end of each level, the player has to win the key to go into the next area. Each level has a trial part at the beginning, in which Retman is explaining player’s mission, and has various degrees of complexity, which increase as the player progresses. The scenario of the game and the seven levels structure focuses on seven objectives: Level 1: identifying the emotional reactions, and differentiating between basic emotions, complex emotions, and functional and dysfunctional emotions; Level 2: building relaxation and mindfulness skills; Level 3: identifying the relation between cognitive processes, emotions, and behavioral reactions; Level 4: changing irrational cognitions into rational cognitions; Level 5: building problem-solving skills; Level 6: building happiness and control attention skills; Level 7: consolidation of the previous skills and building happiness skills. The REThink online game was tested in a rigorous clinical trial (Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03308981), based on a research project, and it was found to bring significant improvements regarding emotional symptoms, depressive mood, and emotion-regulation abilities (e.g., emotional awareness and emotional control) of the children and adolescents aged 10-16. Moreover, mechanisms of change were documented for improvements in the emotional symptoms, as changes in the irrational cognitions of the children. REThink therapeutic game unique due to its prevention focus of emotional disorders in youth and evidence-based approach, being designed to reach a large number of youths especially outside of the clinical context, which is in line with recent WHO and UNICEF recommendations.