Biphase is a 2D platform jumping game with exploration and puzzles as its core. In the game, the player plays a role who has bipolar disorder, trying to discover and break through the self in the abstract red and black world.

## About This Game
Game Genre: Biphase, developed by several college students from different
universities, is a 2D platform jumping game with exploration and puzzles as
its core.

Our Message: We hope that the game can show the plight of some bipolar
patients in a realistic and in-depth way by depicting an “individual” in a
group, in addition to popularizing the phenomenon related to the disease. We
are trying to trigger the public’s empathy through the individual’s narrative,
and call on the public to adopt a more understanding and tolerant attitude
towards the patients with bipolar disorder.

Abstract Narration: The narration part of this game was based on real cases
around the player, mainly about the main character with bipolar disorder, who
explores the abstract world of red and black mental images to find an exit.

Puzzle Levels: The level process is a metaphor for the condition “bipolar
disorder”. The main components of the scene, red and black, fade into the
background of the same color, just as people wrapped in extreme emotions often
fail to perceive the whole picture. The red and black worlds in the game refer
to the “manic” and “depressive” mood poles of bipolar disorder, and the
characters are in a world divided by two levels of emotions.

How to Play: In the level, players manipulate the main character to move left
and right, jump, press the switch, jump to change the background color.
Players switch back and forth in the red and black dual-phase mental image
world, and interact with the scene components with different states of passage
in the two colors of the background, when the scene components and the
background color is the same, the components are non-interactive state; when
the scene components and the background color is opposite, the components are
interactive state. Players gradually explore the path to the end in the
switching of red and black.

Special Thanks: DBSA. The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), is a
nonprofit organization providing support groups for people who live with
depression or bipolar disorder as well as their friends and family.

Biphase