"Landscape Montage" Digital Game for Virtual Counseling Purposes

Abstract

This study is to create a virtual counseling environment with the expressive art therapy method "Landscape Montage Technique". This counseling method is to guide users to perceive their own "self", and reveal their senses of the reality. It is a 3D digital game environment that allows users to explore themselves in the interactive and self-experiencing design. The evaluation of the users' self-concept, game counseling effectiveness, their satisfaction toward the game are positive. It has proved that digital games can perform basic counseling functions, and many case tests were affirmative on the results.