‘Get home safe.” Friends say it to each other at the end of a night, implying fear that the other will not make it to their bed unharmed. The danger of travelling at night inspired a university student to develop an interactive game to highlight the plight of women who return home alone.
Pimpisa Keupram, a student at Silpakorn University’s Faculty of Decorative Art, Visual Communication Design, recently launched a project titled Get Home Safe. In the simulation game, a player takes on the role of a female character who will have to make scenario-based decisions to return home unaccompanied at night. Along the way, she will have to choose how to commute and react to an offender, which leads to multiple…