Dr. Eric Bender

What goes behind that?

Why might they think this about someone?

Why might they think this about themselves?

So all the pieces of...

who they are and how that comes together to create a character.

Somebody like us who is going through the world and interacting with the world in different ways with some of where we came from and who we are has to do with a lot of experiences in our lives.

So it's, it's understanding what experiences might make somebody like this.

Do you think about a specific patient when you're doing this?

I don't think about a specific patient.

I think about the character.

So I was really lucky to work on Batman Arkham Shadow.

It came out in 2024 and I was excited.

It got VR game of the year and Camouflage, the company that put it out that worked for Meta, they were so open to this.

And what I would do is I would talk with them about the characters and what they wanted to show.

And then they told me some of the story they had and I could say, oh,

If someone came from this kind of background, then this would probably happen.

This is how they might see this.

This is how they might understand their emotions.

So it's not that I have a patient in mind, but I'm imagining them sitting in front of me.

What can I understand what happened in their lives that would make them this way?