Doris Rusch
Professor at Department of Game Design
- Telephone:
- +46 498 10 82 62
- Mobile phone:
- +46 18 471 82 62, +46 70 167 95 88
- E-mail:
- doris.rusch@speldesign.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Strandgatan 1b (Residenset)
621 57 VISBY - Postal address:
- Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
62167 Visby
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Short presentation
Dr. Doris C. Rusch is a game designer / researcher with a humanities background who holds a position as Professor in Game Design at Uppsala University. Her games have won numerous awards and she has been an international keynote speaker and presenter including Clash of Realities, DiGRA, Game Developers Conference, Meaningful Play, Nordic Game Conference, FDG and TEDx. She authored Making Deep Games - Designing Games with Meaning and Purpose (Taylor & Francis 2017).
Keywords
- game design
- mental health
- ritual
- human experience
- mythology
- existentialism
- role playing games
- coaching

Publications
Recent publications
Digital Games and Mental Health: Editorial
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
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Existential Transformational Game Design: Harnessing the "Psychomagic" of Symbolic Enactment
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
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All publications
Articles in journal
Digital Games and Mental Health: Editorial
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
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Existential Transformational Game Design: Harnessing the "Psychomagic" of Symbolic Enactment
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
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