Gav Sarafian

Deficit

Afterwards available at the HAUthek 

  • Game
  • Online
  • 2024/2025
  • English
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Tech requirements: The game can be played on aPC/Mac/laptop or tablet format device (oriented horizontally) with access to the internet and a web browser. Best played on Firefox in fullscreen mode. You may also download an offline copy of the game from the itch.io page, though this version doesn't have some of the animations from the browser-based version. The game does not contain audio.

How to play: To begin the experience, navigate to the embedded window and click "Run game", then click “Start” on the main menu. You will be required to read text and click on text prompts to advance through each passage. Please note that the game does not feature any save functionality - if you close the window, you will lose your progress. Play time: About 15 minutes.

The game contains flashing and blinking lights, and references to: ADHD, mental health, medication, drugs, trauma, and self-esteem.Some content may be distressing to some players.

The semi-fictional, interactive game “Deficit” is based on real experiences with ADHD. Using text clusters, players navigate through various everyday experiences of people with ADHD – such as attending a conference, flirting at a party, ordering a coffee or tidying their own room – and thus encounter different facets of neurodiverse perceptions and the structural barriers that many spaces and everyday situations have. The experiences in the game are presented in an entertaining and varied way. Gav Sarafian is committed to an inclusive and diverse play practice. With “Deficit,” the game developer wants to give an exemplary insight into life with ADHD through an accessible computer game.

Date

    • Sat 7.6.2025
      17:00

Cast

Concept, game design, programming: Gav Sarafian

To production on hebbel-am-ufer.de