VISUAL NOVEL GAME DESIGN ABOUT BURNOUT IN UNIVERSITY STUDENT (BURNED OUT)

• Main Author: Putri Auliya, Sarah
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/74472
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Burnout is a condition in which individuals experience physical, mental and emotional exhaustion that occurs due to stress from workloads that are too heavy, which, if not realized, can lead to depression. Students often experience this burnout condition consciously or unconsciously. We need a media to interactively convey information about burnout related to student conditions. One of the media for conveying this information is in the form of a visual novel game, which is a type of game in a storytelling format. Visual novel games have three elements, namely visual characters, visual narrative, and visual style. The visual style used in the design of this study is a psychological horror theme, with a classic game visual novel format that uses a text box at the bottom, characters in the middle, and a background that usually indicates a place. The visual narrative designed is to tell a main character, namely a student who is struggling to balance his study and work, because of the many burdens he carries, the main character then gets burnout. The aim of this design is to raise awareness about the importance of burnout phenomena occurring among students. Using visual novel games as a medium has the potential to become an effective medium of information about burnout and can be enjoyed by university students because the interactions made by players towards games can bring out empathy for players about the events experienced by the main character who is experiencing burnout