Game Mechanics and Mental Health

Tessa Marley-Becker
4 min readJul 23, 2020

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As I currently trudge my way through the impossibly difficult but optional B-Side levels in Celeste I look back at the journey that I’ve had with the game. My death counter sits closer to 5000 than 4000 and I’ve only completed 2 of the 8 B-Sides. The interesting thing is that I relish at those numbers, I am overjoyed to have spent over 15 hours and counting working to complete a game that takes some people as few as 8 hours to…

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Tessa Marley-Becker

A curious and imaginative journalist. I write about all things queer, trans, or just about anything else the little goblins in my brain come up with.